Life of Octavia Hill as Told in Her Letters

by Octavia Hill

[112]. House of her half-brother, Arthur Hill.

[113]. Acted by George MacDonald and his family.

[114]. Mr. Loch, on his part, was impressed with her way of seizing the point that was “eternally important;” and he has, since her death, expressed a wish to use the influence of the C.O.S. in the direction of those more positive reforms in which she was specially engaged in Notting Hill.

[115]. This portrait was left by Octavia to the National Portrait Gallery.

[116]. The house to which they moved after school was given up.

[117]. The tenants in the Deptford courts.

[118]. The violent behaviour of the tenants at Deptford.

[119]. One of the most respectable tenants.

[120]. Mrs. Whelpdale, Octavia’s half-sister.

[121]. This refers to some small freehold houses given by Mrs. Scrase Dickins to be held in trust by Lord Wolmer, Miss Johnson, and Octavia, on the understanding that the interest accruing from the gift should be devoted to some good object.