is not reported with entire approval, but the letter ends:—
“I loved my holidays very much and hope that I can go next year to live with the same lady”.
A boy writes:—
“The lady was very kind she never said any naughty words to me”.
And another lad reports:—
“I was fed extremely well and treated with the best respect”.
One little girl had clear views on the proper position of man.
“My ladie,” she writes, “had a big pig 4 little ones, 2 cats. some hens a bird in a cage a apple tree a little boy and a Huband.”
Sometimes the history of the place has been impressed on the children.
“I (aged eleven) was very glad I went to Guildford because Sir Lancelot and Elaine lived there but its name was then Astolat.”