Lyne, Florence C. H.

Letter from Franny Lyne addressed from Westbourne Terrace of Bray, Ireland. Tells Eva that she should write a story of all of her adventures. Discusses and church festival, various people, Eva's piano, the cold weather and the sea wall.

Letter from Franny Lyne (signed with only her initials), addressed from Dublin. Thanks Eva for sending the comforter for the table "all the more as you have a sale of your own on hand" and requests that she write with the results of her sale.

Letter from Franny Lyne addressed from Hatch Street in Dublin. Mentions that Mr. Lindsay purchased the muffler that Eva made for the Bazaar and that she is collecting the remains of the sale to give to Mr. Lindsay for the Children's Missionary Bazaar at Bray.

From Franny Lyne, stamped in Dublin and signed "F.C.H.L." Thanks Eva for sending a note about March 19 and asks if anyone has given her "[illegible] La. I" since last September, and if not, "please prevent their doing so and read word in any case next time you are writing to your mother."

Letter sent from Franny and signed "Florence C.H. Lyne." Thanks Eva for sending her a birthday present and says she will send a confirmation present. Speaks of a marionette performance at school and mentions how wonderful it is to have Eva's mother visiting.

Letter written on February 27th and 28th. The first letter is signed by Florence Lyne and the second part is signed with her initials "F C [illegible] L". Expresses her sadness in losing her sister and details the funeral. Also speaks about her mother's illness, denial about the loss of her daughter and then describes the worsening of her mother's illness and fever until her eventual passing.

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.