My dear Mrs Latimer I rejoiced much to see your writing again though I burn with shame that I was in debt to you, having rather dawdled over my thanks for the African book which told me much more than I knew before about that dismal country which really seems to me to have such an effect on people’s tempers as to make them quite unlike them selves. There has enough happened to make a fresh ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Latimer Thank you very much for the adventure in the Night Express which is just the thing; either as Christmas number or short story, I am not quite sure which, any way I am very glad of it. We are more open to short articles now so I should like to have your Civil engineer again. I was sorry to part with it though I had never used it

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My dear Mrs Latimer

Thank you very much for your pleasant Shakespeare book.

I have read the first three divisions of it and enjoyed it once [?]. You should suggest to your audience the series of Shakespeare Tableaux, which I once saw. They were got up by Lady Laura Ridding wife to the bishop of Southwell, who was then headmaster of Winchester college. She assigned one play to each of a set of different families and ... continue reading