Dear Miss Troyte,

Many thanks for your kind order and pleasant letter. I hope the Heartsease leaves may help off some of the still remaining £120 which must be raised before the bells can be ordered. Lady Lucy Herbert has worked hard for them for seven years, literally worked, for she and her sister have drawn and sold their drawings for them. I believe the delight they will feel will be very great, and Mrs Selwyn ... continue reading

My dear Madam That poem on the Sabbath Bells was given me by Lady Lucy Herbert, Lord Powis’s sister, at the time when she was collecting subscriptions for bells for Auckland Cathedral New Zealand. She sent it to me undoubtingly to be printed with an appeal we were then making. She has since married and I cannot remember her present name - but perhaps you know her, and at any rate her sister, Lady [[person:680]Harriet ... continue reading