Sent from Edgehill House, Anglesea Road, Ipswich. Thanking him for a letter from Calais, and saying he seemed to enjoy France but she was sorry Lizzie couldn’t be with him as she was busy at home. She writes that Dolly [Dorothy Rose] was being good and helping little Carl [Sherrington] with his drawing, Carl lacks her gift for it but it’s useful for a boy to have desire to draw (“all our boys have it”) and it has helped Charlie’s [Sherrington] work; she had letters from Liverpool, they [?] start for America on 6th, her next letter would be from Jamestown and then she wouldn’t get any others until they reached South America; Charlie [Sherrington] was getting ahead of his lectures (he had done 8, and only had 2 more to do); Ethel [Sherrington] says Dolly is a lovely girl, kind and companionable, and she envies her gift for drawing and painting; Ethel was beginning to appreciate the good effect of home schooling in early years on affections and principles, overindulgence is erring on the right side; G [George Sherrington] left today, he came on Wednesday and played golf with Fanny [Louisa Frances Stains?] on Thursday; Fanny was not too tired which was wonderful, and was playing croquet yesterday next door to Bessie [Fanny and Bessie, probably Stains], she has had to stop the X-rays for now as her skin was tender, Dr Brown saw her before his holiday and he thought the growth on her neck had got smaller; she couldn’t remember the year Mrs Stains died but this Easter Sunday is a reminder; Miss West is dining with Fanny and Bessie [Stains]; and Willie [Sherrington] came yesterday for a few days and is looking tired.

She also writes that Chrissie and Fanny get on fairly nicely and have exchanged teas with each other; Chrissie’s position is very altered and she misses her kind husband (she must be careful with her free heart now) but she likes Ipswich’s pleasures such as the market; Miss Palmer plays the organ at Whitton Church for a time; Wollaston and Willie [Sherrington] have gone for a walk in Whitton and will be back at 5 for tea, and Chrissie was coming to dinner later; Ethel thought he looked better before he set off for Paris (she asks him to take care for all of them); and Dr Wilks is better, sits up for 2-3 hours and eats well.

[Miss Palmer was possibly the daughter of Thomas Palmer, Professor of Music, of 45 Berners Street Ipswich, age 46 in the 1891 Census. There is a photograph of a Professor Palmer “killed in Africa” amongst Rose family photographs, according to the depositor of these papers].