“Next Monday we shall send out notices for a special meeting to consider the draft.
“If the Brewers will give the sum £40,000, it is calculated that the buildings will cost from £20 to £25 per head, and about 400 girls in each school; but there will be sites, law, and scholarships to be provided.
“Mr. Roby thought the sum mentioned would not be too much for the two schools. This school is to be a First Grade, fixed pay of mistress £100 per annum, and a maximum cap. fee of £3. So my income might amount to £1300 per annum! The Camden mistress might get about £450 as a minimum, or £700 as a maximum. £200 endowment for rates, repairs, and £200 in each school for scholarships.”
“Jan. 1, 1873.
“My head aches at the thought of the worry of settling the claims to entry of the candidates waiting for admission. Your friends are somewhere about fiftieth.
“Our scheme is not yet published. I am anxious to see it in the Times, so that the three months may soon pass.”
Then came six months of waiting before Miss Buss writes, on July 31, 1873—
“You will be glad to know that the Endowed Schools Amendment Act has passed the Commons. The Lords may turn it out. Perhaps they will. Won’t that be dreadful? I don’t know when the reading takes place.”
But on August 9, she writes from Bruges to the Rev. S. Buss—
“Of course you know that OUR Act—the Endowed Schools Commission—is really an Act now. It is mentioned in the Queen’s Speech.