2. Octavia called the mother pigeon “May,” and the young one had been hatched in a dark loft.

3. See “Dr. Southwood Smith, a Retrospect.” By Mrs. C. L. Lewis. 1898.

4. Miss Gillies and her sister Margaret were Mrs. Hill’s bridesmaids, and became life-long friends of her and her children.

5. Wife of R. H. Horne.

6. A vivid account of the life of the toy-workers appeared on May 17th, 1856, in Household Words, under the title of “Ragged Robin.”

7. Mentioned in the letter of February 27th, 1856.

8. Journal of Association.

9. Promoters of Working Men’s Association.

10. A party of four people.

11. Afterwards Lord Ripon.

12. Three years earlier Dr. Furnivall lent Mrs. Hill Ruskin’s “Modern Painters,” and Octavia read it then for the first time.

13. Charles Mansfield, author of “Letters from Paraguay,” and one of the Christian Socialist leaders.

14. During the Crimean War.

15. Octavia never took any notes. Her recollections of the sermons are wholly from memory.

16. The Czar Nicholas.

17. By Charles Kingsley.

18. 1851 or 1852, certainly not later.

19. Builder connected with Co-operative Society.

20. After the glass had been painted, a hard composition was put at the back to make it solid enough to bear a weight. Sometimes it broke in the process, and the painting had to be done over again.

21. Turner’s “Old TemÉraire.”

22. Kate Sterling, afterwards Mrs. Ross.

23. The morning daily service to which she was accustomed to go.

24. The Toy-workers.

25. Presumably Miss Emma Cons.

26. She went every afternoon to Lincoln’s Inn.

27. Octavia was confirmed at Christ Church, Marylebone, by Tait, then Bishop of London.

28. Formerly nurse to Octavia and her elder sisters at Wisbeach, then married to a tailor in London.

29. Composed by Octavia.

30. Miss Margaret Gillies.

31. Miss Emily Smith.

32. The little toy-worker who had cared so much for the cat.

33. Octavia’s half-sister, Mrs. Whelpdale.

34. She was drawing for Ruskin and walking a great part of the way to Dulwich and back and standing there for five or six hours.

35. Miss Harrison, with whom she was to travel.

36. Chartres Cathedral.

37. Octavia had only learned a little French from her mother, and had had no practice in speaking except a very little to the refugee Poles, who worked at the Ladies’ Guild, eight years previously.

38. Miss Emily Smith.

39. The wife of Mr. Ellis Yarnall and sister of Miss Harrison.

40. One of the girls who made toys.

41. The daughter of a former nurse.

42. She was teaching all day.

43. Miranda’s former pupils, whom Mrs. Hill was teaching.

44. Where Octavia was drawing.

45. A visit to Wales, where she first saw mountains.

46. The landlord of 14, Nottingham Place.

47. How difficult some of Octavia’s zealous workers found this problem may be gathered from the following story:—On one occasion she heard a stormy altercation going on between one of her collectors and a tenant, and found that the point at issue was whether the rent due was 6s. 11d. or 7s. all but a penny.

48. After her return from Italy.

49. Miss Harris’s five nieces of whom she had charge.

50. At Nottingham Place.

51. Written by Miranda for her little pupils.

52. First reference to the housing schemes.

53. Mr. William Shaen.

54. The marriage of Gertrude to Charles Lewes, son of G. H. Lewes.

55. Mrs. Hill and her three daughters were staying near Falmouth in a cottage lent them by Miss Sterling.

56. Miss Sterling’s servant.

57. Hugh’s wife.

58. This was afterwards known as the “Maurice Girls’ Home.”

59. One of the first tenants. Her only boy died in hospital. She was a widow who went very early to work. Octavia and her sisters went every morning for some weeks to get the children ready for school, until they had learnt to do it themselves.

60. A name her sister Miranda gave her, because she attracted so many persons to join her in all she did.

61. Mentioned in the “Homes of the London Poor.”

62. Marylebone Road.

63. A former pupil.

64. This refers to a performance of the “Merchant of Venice” in Dr. Martineau’s schoolroom in Portland Street. Octavia acted Portia.

65. A present to her from the tenants on her return after illness.

66. This refers to the appointment of Mrs. Nassau Senior, as the first woman inspector of workhouses, by Mr. Stansfeld, President of the Poor Law Board.

67. Secretary of the Local Government Board.

68. An allusion to her grandfather, Dr. Southwood Smith.

69. A cupboard sent specially from Cumberland, dated 1605.

70. She was on a tour in Scotland with George MacDonald and his family.

71. Afterwards Mrs. Loch.

72. Daughter of Ellis Yarnall.

73. This article came out in British Quarterly Review.

74. This refers to the formation of an Administrative Committee of the Charity Organisation Society to be elected by the local committees.

75. This refers to the movement for purchasing the Swiss Cottage Fields for the public.

76. The Swiss Cottage Fields.

77. Now better known as Parliament Hill.

78. Now Lady Courtney.

79. This is the letter by which Miranda inaugurated the Kyrle Society.

80. A reference to Octavia’s past attempt to save the Swiss Cottage Fields.

81. A house in Paddington Street which Octavia undertook to manage.

82. The Kyrle Society.

83. Re Kyrle Society.

84. A premature attempt to get the gardens of Lincoln’s Inn Fields open to the public.

85. This refers to a petition circulated among the electors of Marylebone asking Mr. Hughes to come forward again at the next election.

86. She boarded out one of these orphans in memory of Mrs. N. Senior.

87. The artist who painted Octavia, and who, afterwards, went out to Father Damien, to help the lepers.

88. The Charity Organisation Committees.

89. Her Donation Fund.

90. A tenant.

91. About a playground in Whitechapel.

92. Miranda’s Fairy Story.

93. This evidently refers to the seizure of several Englishmen and their subsequent massacre.

94. A churchyard that had just been laid out by the Kyrle Society. It was opened by the Princess Louise.

95. She had just returned from a short visit to the George MacDonalds’ at Bordighera where M. was staying.

96. The rent collecting day.

97. An open space near the Southwark cottages.

98. Hon. Sec. of the Kyrle Society.

99. A poor woman whose family O. had sent to the north, thereby raising them from extreme poverty to comfortable independence.

100. Charles Lewes, husband of Octavia’s sister Gertrude.

101. For the Jubilee services.

102. Canon Rawnsley.

103. This is the pass over Skiddaw mentioned in previous letter.

104. When she went to Larksfield she spent much time in clearing thistles in the garden ground, which had been a neglected field.

105. To the first L.C.C.

106. The Moral Ideal.

107. He was Alderman of the first L.C.C.

108. Mrs. Lewes’ second daughter, afterwards Mrs. J. Hopwood.

109. The architect who for forty-two years helped Octavia.

110. About Housing.

111. In “Aurora Leigh.”

112. House of her half-brother, Arthur Hill.

113. Acted by George MacDonald and his family.

114. Mr. Loch, on his part, was impressed with her way of seizing the point that was “eternally important;” and he has, since her death, expressed a wish to use the influence of the C.O.S. in the direction of those more positive reforms in which she was specially engaged in Notting Hill.

115. This portrait was left by Octavia to the National Portrait Gallery.

116. The house to which they moved after school was given up.

117. The tenants in the Deptford courts.

118. The violent behaviour of the tenants at Deptford.

119. One of the most respectable tenants.

120. Mrs. Whelpdale, Octavia’s half-sister.

121. This refers to some small freehold houses given by Mrs. Scrase Dickins to be held in trust by Lord Wolmer, Miss Johnson, and Octavia, on the understanding that the interest accruing from the gift should be devoted to some good object.

122. South America.

123. The first bit of land given to the National Trust.

124. Lady Ducie left to Octavia a valuable freehold which had been managed by Octavia for many years.

125. Mr. Lawrence Chubb.

126. An old Church House in Kent.

127. A well given by Octavia to Toys Hill village, the spring being discovered by a “water-finder.”

128. The description refers to the dedication to the public of the land at Brandlehow, near Derwentwater.

129. Mrs. Hill was nearly ninety-four years of age at her death.

130. Mr. R. B. Litchfield, one of the founders of the Working Men’s College in Great Ormond Street (now in Crowndale Road).

131. This letter alludes to a proposed visit to Letchworth where she had been asked to assist in judging the merits of certain model cottages which were to be exhibited there.

132. Daughter of Sir John Macdonell and of Octavia’s old friend, the niece of Mary Howitt.

133. In memory of Miranda.

134. Mr. and Mrs. Ouvry.

135. A proposed addition to the Ide Hill land.

136. Mr. Nigel Bond, Secretary of National Trust.

137. Her brother, Arthur Hill.

138. The above letter refers to a gift from a servant, for Mariners’ Hill.

139. A very dear friend of Miranda’s.

140. General Maurice’s daughter, who had been working in Notting Hill with Miss Yorke and Octavia.