Handwritten poem written by her Uncle, Stephen Eaton, on stationery from Tolethorpe Hall, Stamford (the home of Montague Eliot's sister, Mrs Bee Eaton). Montague Eliot's note on the page says that Stephen Eaton wrote it a week before he died.

Dated 25th May, 1911 and inscribed to Elizabeth, we only have the first part of it to transcribe here:
"You've a very intelligent Popper
And a Mommer as nice as she's fair
Now I know you will turn out a 'topper'
Since they've named you from him of Auxerre.
He converted the Gaul and the Briton
And many a miracle did
A line I don't fancy you'll hit on
Be you never so wondrous a kid.

Yet thus would Germanus exhort 'em,
'Be gentle, be kind and be true'
And strange to relate, but he wrought 'em
That way to be beautiful too."

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