Octavia to Miss Alice Cockerill.
Will you give my sincere thanks to Mrs. ——,[[138]] and tell her I am sure that there is a blessing on such gifts. I do rejoice when people’s hearts are set on giving, and what a joy it is to them; it seems to make their lives so happy and so full. Gifts which are a sacrifice to the giver impress and inspire others, and I am glad to report them to those engaged in this work.
190 Marylebone Road,
January 2nd, 1912.
My very dearest Florence,
Lily Shaen writes to ask me about a possible sale of Freshwater Place, and the house in Marylebone Road.
I am going to see Capell on Saturday. I have a kind of idea that he may be able to help about access to Ide Hill from the Toys Hill side.
CHEERY VIEW OF HER WORK
We have gone on with Ruskin’s Life; it is very interesting; but the writer esteems his political economy higher than I should do, in comparison with his art work.
The New Year opens for me in many ways very happily. It is wonderful to think that I have been able to secure the purchase of the seventeen houses at Notting Hill, all we feared to lose; and even one seemed impossible at one time.