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OXFORD UNION SOCIETY

May: 29: 96

My dear Anna,

I had your interesting letter this morning.
I am very grieved and offended at what you
say about Mother's condition of ignorance and
unenlightenment. I am afraid I must give her
up. I congratulate Ervie on his brassy.
I sent him the "Alice" book, because I have
been so deeply affected recently by the pathos of
the songs of Through the Looking-Glass which I have
been reading in the Union. That wretched
Taffy goes about all day repeating

"'Twas brillig and the slithy toves".

I think we will like Innerleithen. I do not