McCormick, Edna M. L., 1874?-

Letter sent from Brighton by a friend, Edna McCormick. Gives Eva her school address. Says that she got an English prize of a "beautifully bound copy of Tennyson" and that she and Suzie got prizes for collecting wildflowers while in Malvern. Asks if Eva has had a "breaking up" party and if she remembers "the very rude things you wrote" in Green Bank.

Letter from Edna McCormick addressed from St. Matthews Vicarage in Brighton. A small watercolor sketch of a landscape is at the top left of the first page. Thanks Eva for sending "bits of Hemlock" since she hasn't been able to find any and they "seem scarce".

Written before Eva left for Ireland in hopes it would be forwarded to her address there. Talks about making sketches and collecting hemlock specimens.

Addressed from Southdown Terrace. Thanks Eva for the photograph, decides to give up collecting hemlock because "it not improving to the temper," discusses a picnic in Bramba and the prospect of receiving more letters.

Says that she has been too busy decorating the church to buy presents or send cards.

The collection comprises correspondence sent to Eva, Lizzie Hester, and Sylvie Whyte by family and friends in the 1880s and 1890s, and provides insight into the lives of adolescent girls growing up in Victorian England in the fashionable Midlands town of Malvern, and their travels abroad.