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Title: A Cathedral Courtship

Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin

Release Date: July 7, 2008 [eBook #1551]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1893 Gay and Bird edition by David Price, email
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A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP

BY
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

WITH FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
BY CLIFFORD CARLETON

LONDON: GAY AND BIRD
5 CHANDOS STREET STRAND
1893

_All rights reserved_

First Edition June 1893.
Second Edition July 1893.
Third Edition September 1893.
Fourth Edition November 1893.
Fifth Edition October 1894.

TO MY BOSTON FRIEND
SALEMINA
NO ANGLOMANIAC, BUT
A TRUE BRITON

SHE

WINCHESTER, _May_ 28, 1891
The Royal Garden Inn.

We are doing the English cathedral towns, aunt Celia and I. Aunt Celia
has an intense desire to improve my mind. Papa told her, when we were
leaving Cedarhurst, that he wouldn't for the world have it too much
improved, and aunt Celia remarked that, so far as she could judge, there
was no immediate danger; with which exchange of hostilities they parted.

We are traveling under the yoke of an iron itinerary, warranted neither
to bend nor break. It was made out by a young High Church curate in New
York, and if it had been blessed by all the bishops and popes it could
not be more sacred to aunt Celia. She is awfully High Church, and I
believe she thinks this tour of the cathedrals will give me