HOME-SICKNESS
Heatherside, Wellington College,
Woking,
September 28th, 1867.
To Mrs. Nassau Senior.
Thank you so much for the accounts; how beautifully you have managed them....
It is dreadfully tempting to be so near you all. I long to be amongst you, if it were only just to feel myself with you for an hour or two. You seem to me such a blessed company gathered round that dear old home of ours. But the time will not now seem long before I really see you, and am once more at work. Remember me to all the tenants. Tell Mrs. Moirey she must remember I don’t mean to lose sight of her and hers....
My love to Mrs. Hughes and the children. It is such a comfort to think of your being back to help them at home, and I like to think of your cheering them by your uniform brightness as you used to cheer me.
October 6th, 1867.
Emily to Octavia.