“We are to have a city meeting. At least, Mr. Elliott and I are empowered to try to get one up.
“I am very weary to-day, having been late last night. I have not an hour to myself, except on Sunday before church, till Tuesday evening, every moment being filled with appointments—I mean after school hours.”
“Bournemouth, Mar. 30, 1872.
“All being well I will go with you—not without you, I trust—to Mrs. Mawson’s, on 27th of April.
“The memorial to the Princess has not gone in, nor that to the Baroness Burdett Coutts. Nothing has been done about our City meeting. I am so tied down by the annual exams, that I hardly know where to turn or what to do, or rather, what not to do.
“I am having, however, perfect peace here. It is a most lovely place, and I should like you to know my dear sweet friend Mrs. Hodgson! She knows a good deal of you.”
“April 5.
“Mr. Harries thinks the City meeting would be a failure. The Lord Mayor could not lend the Mansion House for anything not Metropolitan or National.
“This school was 22 years old yesterday!”
“April 10.