“The Clothworkers gave us a cheque for £2500, which will carry us on till October, by which time we hope either to have the freehold or the Alice Owen money. If not, I am to advance what I can, and that wonderful Mr. Robins will also advance, if necessary. So far as I can understand, the Charity Commissioners have suggested to the Brewers that the latter should lend us money, at a moderate rate of interest, from their other educational trust, the Alice Owen, in Islington. The committee met to discuss and report on the security, etc. I hear that the best security will be a life insurance taken up by me, but nothing was settled.” The grand _finale_ came at last when the buildings were completed, as more extracts will show— “March 14, 1879. “Mr. E. N. Buxton was splendid to-day at the governors’ meeting, and he urged that we should go on, and never mind about the Charity Commission difficulties. We have asked the Princess of Wales!” “April 3, 1879. “The Princess of Wales accepts our invitation to open our new buildings and give the prizes. I do hope nothing will prevent her keeping her promise. _As yet_ I do not want the fact known in the school. I shall be torn to pieces, and have to fight over every examination paper and mark, because every girl, and her parents, will be so resolved to get a prize from the hands of our fair, young, and beloved Princess! “I want, in the future, _Foundation Day_ to be always a day of importance in the year. Twenty-nine years! Almost a lifetime.” “June 28, 1879. “How are you all? I often think of you, but the pressure of work now is hardly to be imagined! Independently of the Royal visit, there are the festivities of the girls themselves, in connection with the New Hall. Some French proverbs to be acted, and some extracts from _Les Femmes Savantes_, also the final scene in the _Merchant of Venice_.” For a very pleasant little sketch of the school buildings I am indebted to Miss Edith Aitkin—