Bessie says she ought to be writing for the English Woman’s Journal but is painting and reading the newspapers instead. She describes the sort of cases Mary [Merryweather] is dealing with at the Liverpool Infirmary. She wishes she could be in Sussex but had promised to go [to Ireland] and needs to ‘manage Liverpool & Ireland at one go’. [Letter incomplete.] [A partial transcript of this letter is included with GCPP Parkes 5/119.]