December 7th, 1893.
To Miss Harris.
How very, very long it is since we met! but how the memory of all the love of years abides and grows!... It was a very holy and quiet birthday; just at Mr. Alford’s church, with Mama and the beloved Hampstead circle. Miranda and Mama wrote me lovely poems with their presents, and flowers poured in; but they were just from the near circle, or very old friends.... I had arranged not to go to Red Cross in order to go to Mama....
Hast thou seen Lowell’s letters? They are full of fun, but with a great vein of tenderest pathos too.
ABOUT METHODS OF WORK
190 Marylebone Road,
December 10th, 1893.
Miranda to Mrs. Durrant.
Octavia gave evidence the other day before a Committee on the subject of the Unemployed. She is strongly against exceptional measures. She was examined for an hour and a quarter, and her friends on the Committee note that her evidence did good. It took us nearly six hours to correct the proofs of her evidence.
190 Marylebone Road, N.W.,