My dear Mr Argles I am so glad to hear there is a chance of seeing you and your daughter. I wish I could ask you to stay but my abode is small and is at this moment full. I hope we shall see you at luncheon which is naturally at two. The only time I must ask you to avoid is between three and six on Thursday when I must go to a lecture on ... continue reading

My dear Elizabeth

I have often meant to write and say how much your Buxton book helped me in the descriptions of the place, though I had to construct it a good deal from my own consciousness- Queen Elizabeth’s looking down the assassin is perfectly true - I should have not have dared to write– if I could have imagined– anything so improbable as poor Babington having that picture taken, and Gifford’s shewing it ... continue reading

Dear Miss Walker I should like much to know your Grandmother’s name, in case I should have heard of her from my mother. The curious thing is that my mother had no idea that she was a success. She was very miserable at school, being really too delicate for the treatment of those days and never well in London. She thought her lessons were always marked ‘très mediocre’, and her comfort was watching ... continue reading