My dear Edith It is indeed a great treat to have had a note from you again. I always feel as if my grand setting to rights when you ought to have been resting in peace was one of the drops that assisted in making your bucket overflow Friday seems to me to have been a day that in the rudest health might be felt to be like air to a fish, but how kind the ... continue reading

My dear Miss Jacob I am afraid you will be vexing yourself at having written to me, but indeed there is no cause, I was quite able to read and thank for it. The sad decay of the recent months makes me thankful that the painful struggle is ended, and the thread has been rather slowly untwisted than rent violently out of my life.

Your aunt’s sufferings have been far more acute, but Rest has come to ... continue reading

My dear Gertrude I hope your chapter will be of a length that will fit happily into July. I will do my best for its coming in. Here is your Twilight which please look over, and it will get in when there is room. I do not think I am likely to come to London I have had two outings - to Chichester in Easter week and last week to the laying the ... continue reading

My dear Gertrude Thanks for your chapters. If anything strikes me, I will tell you, but I like all I have read very much. I think Miss Peard does know Arcachon, so I am desiring her to write to you, but I do not believe that Miss Roberts has ever been on that side of France. She /MR is at the Crescent Hotel, Filey, sadly laid up by a strain of the hip, which ... continue reading