Friday, August 6, 2021

Caroline Southwood Smith's letter to her daughter Gertrude Hill about her youngest daughter Octavia Hill, dated September 1, 1843

Source:

Life of Octavia Hill as told in her letters (1913), compiled and edited by Charles Edmund Maurice


The letter:

81, St. Mark's Place, Leeds.
September 1st, 1843.
Ockey can now read quite well, and spends a great deal of time every day in reading to herself. Do you know she can scarcely walk, she goes leaping as if she were a little kangaroo — that is because she is such a merry little girl.

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