My dear Mary

Many thanks for this letter. I suppose the congestion is the great danger now, but youth does so much that I cannot help still hoping and with all the suffering it is not so sad as poor Mr Chamberlayne’s state, for this creeping paralysis has now mastered both arms, so that he can not even point to letters and spell words but he takes food, and his pulse is stronger, and they ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes

Next year’s programme is my own Two Penniless Princesses - historical longish chapters. Miss Agnes Giberne has promised a story - and the Storm in a Teacup has to go on another half year I tried doubling the chapters, but there was not room. I think it is a mistake to sacrifice the story to the volume, as often in those I read, I see the development has been injured to get ... continue reading