Octavia Hill's letter to unknown recipient, written at age four, year circa 1843

Source:

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

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Life_of_Octavia_Hill_as_told_in_her_letters/Chapter_1

Above: Octavia Hill as a child, from an oil painting by Margaret Gillies.

The letter:

We have a box full of silks. I gave Miranda a beautiful piece, it was velvet and the colours were black, purple, yellow and white and green. Miranda gave me a beautiful piece of crimson plush. Miranda has a book called The Peacock at Home and it has three stories in it.