‘Be not anxious. Let me recommend you, as a diversion, to learn shorthand. I find it very good. Script phonography, it is an easy system, you could teach yourself. I am taking lessons; it is much liked.’
To the same:—
‘January 1893.
‘ ... We began to-day. I dare say I shall feel better when we are once more immersed. We are about the same in numbers, but there is a great deal of illness about, and we are half thinking of having a whooping-cough class, under a separate teacher, for Division III.’
To the same:—
‘June 1893.
‘I have had a great pleasure lately. Mrs. Russell Gurney has been spending six weeks here. You must get her Dante’s Pilgrim’s Progress, just brought out, you will enjoy it; I have given a copy to Mrs. Rix. Mr. Alfred Gurney came to stay with her, and he has sent me his Parsifal, a little book of about eighty pages; it is beautiful too.
‘I should like you to read (in part) Mrs. Booth’s Life. It is very interesting, and I am quite surprised at the clearness and truth of her teaching. She seems never to have joined a party, but always looked for truth, and hates the God of Calvin and the doctrine “of assurance,” and the idea that Christ could be good for us and we need not be good. Her utter devotion is beautiful. I have not finished it, and I can’t see how the work was carried on after the person “was saved.”’
To the same:—
‘August 1894.