"In describing a town in Morocco, Tétouan: "The whiteness and pearliness of the town simply defies you-you can't get i…"

"To her mother, 1921: "Don't let N Zealand wait to put up a memorial tablet to my memory—let her help me now whilst I …"

"It is one of the tragedies of leaving Home—New Zealand is too far away—it ceases to be real. New Zealanders like myse…"

"1912: "I was born in Dunedin; we were an English family in a Scottish settlement.""

"1895: "I am slowly settling down to an oldmaidship, and I have only one prominent idea and that is that nothing will …"

"To Dorothy Kate Richmond, 1903: "Come to Tetuan. Come—catch the next steamer, cancel all engagements, chuck the studi…"

"Painting reduces me to tears and misery: peaks of ecstasy, depths of disillusion..."

"To her brother, August 1940: "My aspect of the family talent, or curse? has taken the form of a deep intellectual exp…"

"Shatter her beauteous breast ye may; The Spirit of England none can slay! Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul's, — Deem…"

"... Horticultural Show in the Temple Gardens. I go every year now, and should be sorry to miss it. How odd it seems, …"