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Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, discussing his meeting with Baillie's cousin, Mrs. Cunliffe; his impending trip to Wales; his visit to the Junior Water Colours and the British Institution; etc.
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a note asking me to lunch with them next day. I went, and was introduced to Miss Lyall and her future husband, Bradley Al ford, brother of the Dean of Can terbury. She is said to have every accomplishment, except sing ing and drawing that, civilization has yet divised for several and separate ladies. To be brief, she is a fair monster. She can repeat a whole canto of Dante which she has read the once through the day before.
Her eyes and stockings are of hea venly blue.
Her t
Brown are her tresses and her studies too.
She is to her brother as Hyperion to a satyr, I mean as Manade de Staël to besenius' Hebrew Lexicon. Seriously she is attractive and un Lyallistic. Mrs. Cunliffe is a