OR2240/8b

Copy of letter (made by Frederica) from Richard to Sophia glad liked Knightley when you last saw him

31 January 1882.

From: 1882 To: 1882

Criticises Sophia snearing at imaginative people ‘our family . . . . are too matter of fact, too much absorbed in the petty details of everyday life, too little able to take a flight of the imagination, and with it a wide and comprehensive view of better things, think themselves better than everyone else ‘ whereas perhaps after all, we have only been tied down in our narrow mindedness and stuck fast in our native mire’ imagination a rare gift. pencil note by Frederica ‘never suggested a word of this’, sneers at enlargement of Hinwick House Note Sophia was of course attacking Frederica when she attacked imaginative people, hence Richard’s reaction.

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Orlebar, Richard,
Orlebar, Sophia,
Orlebar, Knightley,
Orlebar, Frederica St.John

letters, Hinwick House