From Elizabeth Steuart   July 16th, 1851

Steuart’s Lodge, | July 16th, 1851

Dear John,

I have been wishing much to hear from you since your return to England, feeling anxious to know the result of the part you have taken in the meeting at Ipswich,¹ of which, as yet, I have only seen a cursory account in the newspapers. I had hoped you might have been able to follow up your plan of taking a run-over here before settling down at Queenwood, but you cannot manage to do so at present, and I therefore send a line to beg you will, at your earliest convenience, let me have a prospectus of the terms etc. etc. of Queenwood College, and a few particulars from yourself with respect to the system of education pursued there: the friends of poor Dr Roche’s two little boys² wish to place them at a respectable school where there is general instruction, and moderate terms, and I mentioned Queenwood to them. I should like to know what religious instruction is given, and by whom, for on account of the Master not being of the Established Church,³ it is a matter of the first importance: please also to mention if the pupils are of a respectable class, such as would be put into learned professions: I am anxious about these poor little fellows, left to struggle through life as best they may, without the care and guidance of the parents who were so devoted to them. I think your being at Queenwood would be an inducement to their guardians to send them there, as you would naturally take an interest in their welfare and have a care over them. Mr Steuart unites in every kind wish for you, with

Yours very sincerely, | E. D. Steuart.

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