Thro’ the body and gone.”
They all seemed so really among us that sometimes I could hardly think of anything tangible to be done. Truly did I think of Ruskin’s passage about Association, and how places become enriched by the life that has been passed in them. You will know the passage well.
The Warren,
June 5th, 1895.
To Mrs. Edmund Maurice.
... You will be sorry to hear that Miss Plunkett has resigned her Hon. Sec. ship for the Hall. She gives it up after the Flower Show. It will be a great loss; in fact it will alter what it is possible to do there. I never find anyone take another’s place. Work becomes different with a new worker. I always find help when it is really needed; but I do wonder where this is coming from. However there is time. I had a delightful visit from Miss Tait. She is going to build three cottages on a small bit of freehold ground near Lambeth Palace. She brought me the plans and such a lovely sketch of the outside. The Eccles. Commrs. lent her the plans, etc., of ours, and she said to me, “You have fired them with interest about building cottages!” Miss Tait has a lease of the court at the back, so she will have quite a little colony there, and Miss Neilson is helping her. Also Miss Gee has been put in charge of some dreadfully managed blocks close to Mrs. Blyth’s which were a great annoyance to them. This is nice in every way.... I have done all my work in advance, or farmed it out; I was so frightened of its falling on Miranda; and I have engaged a bright new worker to come three days weekly, Miss Covington now having been transferred to the new cottages at Westminster, and to help on the South side of river.
2 Montacute Gardens, Tunbridge Wells,
June 28th, 1895.
To a Fellow Worker.
It is very important that you should have a good holiday some time, and I know well how difficult it is to arrange holidays.