‘I have had a very pleasant but exhausting time since we met. I spent a fortnight at Oxford, attending both Oxford Extension and British Association. We heard a good deal about social and economic problems. Mr. Sydney Webb and Dr. Rein of Jena, who trains men as teachers, gave some nice lectures. Miss Louch is come back, having had a delightful time at the Educational Congress at the Clarke University, under the Presidency of Dr. Stanley Hall. She says she has learned a great deal.... I think our Training Department has as many if not more than any College there is, in spite of not having received any of the thousands that have been given to them—or, shall I say, because of it? I am sure it is good to have to pay one’s way. I believe our Universities would do better work if they had nothing. “Then welcome each rebuff.” ‘We had many parties at St. Hilda’s, and everybody admired the house. The girls enjoy the boat very much; I hope there will be no accidents. It is a very safe one, but one is always nervous about the water.... ‘I am pleased with the Higher Cambridge List ... and I am glad that we manage to keep up our lists, _because_ we do not buy up our neighbours’ girls, and try not to make examinations the end. Glad your girl has done so well. ‘I am working hard at the Magazine and my Reports to the Council, and trying to rest a little after my Oxford labours. On Tuesday I hope to go to the hills near Stroud. ‘I must lend you some day _Streets and Lanes_, by the late Miss Benson. The Archbishop has sent me a copy. ‘May God bless and comfort your hearts, my dear children, and make this light affliction, which is but for a moment, work out an eternal good.’ To the same:— ‘AMBLESIDE, _May 1895_. ‘ ... The lakes are more beautiful and lovable than I had imagined. There is a singular charm in the hills round Ambleside, they ripple like the sea. ‘You must not “feel” while you are so weak, just lie, as it were, in the sepulchre, and then come out as Browning’s Lazarus.’ To the same:— ‘_July 1897._