Includes: 5 letters August 1892 to Northumberland and Arran, including 17 August to Alnmouth - ‘hoping you - - got through yr. speech’ - ‘Mr Hoofe - - smitten with ‘Miss Lilian’ - - she can’t be spared from Coop can she?’, also undated note in envelope - ‘I am in terror lest you shd. attempt too much in Arran’, 27 August - ‘I suppose you left Bambro’ before post time’, and K.L. Thursday - ‘I am glad to find you are staying quietly at B. till Friday’ - ‘I fear that your subject for the T.U. Congress won’t be quite what you will like - following on the great Mrs. S.W. too. But 5 minutes are soon over & you won’t feel much need of prep.’; 2 September from Harrogate to Arran - ‘sulphur baths that wd. cure yr. poor back in no time’ - ‘I don’t believe you’re a bit cured of any of yr. troubles - - Do tell me how you are for this next great knocking about at Glas. Manch. & London. I am sometimes unhappy about you. I gather from Lilian that you won’t be home till the 14th’ - ‘Let me know where & how you are please - if only a p.c.’; 4 September 1892 from Harrogate to Glasgow - ‘A line - - to welcome you to Glasgie. I know how bad you are, & how unfit for all the Congress work & excitement. But I trust it won’t be so bad, as nothing much depends on you personally. The shortest card will be welcome. If you were here, you’d have nothing to do all day but be in the fine air, getting strong.’ - ‘Oh make haste home - I can’t do well without my kindest helper & reprover’ - also contains Harrogate 8 September 1892 - ‘By the way I suppose you have heard of Meta’s little daughter?’ [presumably Alison Mary Hogg, b. 1892 to Meta Hogg, nee Muir, Girton 1881]; 21 October 1892 - ‘V. glad to - - hear of yr. kind host. But I fear you conceal from me.’, also containing 2 other letters and 1 fragment; 22 October, empty envelope, postmarked Kirkby Lonsdale and addressed to Margaret c/o Dr Merz, The Quarries, Newcastle on Tyne, with note on back - ‘H. came after all, by Arnside’; 4 November 1892 c/o of the Co-operative Society, ‘Grantham’ overwritten with ‘Gainsboro’ - ‘how yr. work grows & prospers under yr. indefatigable hands’; 7 November 1892 to Kirkby Lonsdale; 9 November [1892??] from Brighton - 'I am - - anxious about - - Lilian - - It is well she was not on a Coop Mission! but the parents will say - - that she is not fit for public life' - 'I fear you will be sadly overworked with no dear Lilian. Try Miss Maggie Wearing'.