Additional Manuscripts c

Admits to being a very bad correspondent. Asks whether HS has written to her. Reports that he is very busy with lectures and with organising the women's lectures 'and seeing that everybody gets taught what they want to learn.' States that he is also writing an essay for Mind. States that she is working at mathematics again with Mr Ferrers, which she claiMS to enjoy very much. Announces that she is to have one or two pupils from Newnham Hall for Algebra. Reports that Miss Clough and several students at Newnham and their servants have become ill, probably from eating some [unwholesome] fish, but the doctor says that they will recover. States that Ellen Crofts has come back to the college, and that Charlotte's sister Edith is also there. Mentions that Edward Benson is coming to Cambridge on the following Friday, as he has to preach the commemoration sermon on the Sunday. Discusses to Dr Slade and his seances, and the suspicions surrounding him, and refers to Professor Lankaster's evidence, which 'remains very strong in support of the trickery thing.' HS to MS. States that both he and NS 'have both been a good deal fussed about different matters', but that everything is sorted out now. ClaiMS that he could almost believe that he had lived years in his house, which, he claiMS, is exactly the sort of home they wanted. States that it is unlike what he thought of whenever he thought of living domestically in Cambridge; that he had always imagined hiMSelf 'in a semi-detached villa on the road to the railway station, exactly like twelve other semi-detached villas', but that the great feature of his present home is 'its Individuality.' Undertakes to send his own letter the following day. )