“She is perhaps the best Catholic English writer, and Ruskin, whose life she wrote, calls her a great critic.”

High praise for a contemporary Catholic writer and critic · Letter, October 1901, concerning Alice Meynell

• Admiration
• Criticism
• Writers

“I am not surprised that you, who are sojourning in a land where the cat was once worshiped, should desire to hear the mews (Muse) of the Tabb-y.”

Playful punning reply when asked for a copy of his poems · Letter to a correspondent in Egypt

• Humour
• Poetry
• Wit