Life of Octavia Hill as Told in Her Letters

by Octavia Hill

[92]. Miranda’s Fairy Story.

[93]. This evidently refers to the seizure of several Englishmen and their subsequent massacre.

[94]. A churchyard that had just been laid out by the Kyrle Society. It was opened by the Princess Louise.

[95]. She had just returned from a short visit to the George MacDonalds’ at Bordighera where M. was staying.

[96]. The rent collecting day.

[97]. An open space near the Southwark cottages.

[98]. Hon. Sec. of the Kyrle Society.

[99]. A poor woman whose family O. had sent to the north, thereby raising them from extreme poverty to comfortable independence.

[100]. Charles Lewes, husband of Octavia’s sister Gertrude.

[101]. For the Jubilee services.