Stimulated by this and the encouragement of Lionel Tennyson—­a new friend—­I was anxious to start a newspaper.  When I was a little girl at Glen, there had been a schoolroom paper, called “The Glen Gossip:  The Tennant Tatler, or The Peeblesshire Prattler.”  I believe my brother Eddy wrote the wittiest verses in it; but I was too young to remember much about it or to contribute anything.  I had many distinguished friends by that time, all of whom had promised to write for me.  The idea was four or five numbers to be illustrated by my sister Lucy Graham Smith, and a brilliant letter-press, but, in spite of much discussion among ourselves, it came to nothing.  I have always regretted this, as, looking at the names of the contributors and the programme for the first number, I think it might have been a success.  The title of the paper gave us infinite trouble.  We ended by adopting a suggestion of my own, and our new venture was to have been called “To-morrow.”  This is the list of people who promised to write for me, and the names they suggested for the paper: 

Lord and Lady Pembroke Sympathetic Ink. 
                          The Idle Pen. 
                          The Mail. 
                          The Kite. 
                          Blue Ink.

Mr. A. Lyttelton The Hen. 
                          The Chick.

Mr. Knowles The Butterfly. 
Mr. A. J. Balfour The New Eve. 
                          Anonymous. 
                          Mrs. Grundy.

Mr. Oscar Wilde The Life Improver. 
                          Mrs. Grundy’s Daughter.

Lady Ribblesdale Jane. 
                          Psyche. 
                          The Mask.

Margot Tennant The Mangle. 
                          Eve. 
                          Dolly Varden. 
                          To-morrow.

Mr. Webb The Petticoat.

Mrs. Horner She.

Miss Mary Leslie The Sphinx. 
                          Eglantine. 
                          Blue Veil. 
                          Pinafore.

Sir A. West The Spinnet. 
                          The Spinning-Wheel.

Mr. J. A. Symonds Muses and Graces. 
                          Causeries en peignoir. 
                          Woman’s Wit and Humour.

The contributors on our staff were to have been Laurence Oliphant, J. K. Stephen, Mr. Wilfrid Blunt, Hon. George Curzon, George Wyndham, Godfrey Webb, Doll Liddell, Harry Cust, Mr. Knowles (the editor of the Nineteenth Century), the Hon. A. Lyttelton, Mr. A. J. Balfour, Oscar Wilde, Lord and Lady Ribblesdale, Mrs. (now Lady) Horner, Sir Algernon West, Lady Frances Balfour, Lord and Lady Pembroke, Miss Betty Ponsonby (the present Mrs. Montgomery), John Addington Symonds, Dr. Jowett (the Master of Balliol), M. Coquelin, Sir Henry Irving, Miss Ellen Terry, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Mr. George Russell, Mrs. Singleton (alias Violet Fane, afterwards Lady Currie), Lady de Grey, Lady Constance Leslie and the Hon. Lionel Tennyson.