Update Introduction Since Gordon Ashman and wrote Part 1 of this study of the life and works of Charlotte (Ashman and Bennett 2000), further research has uncovered additional information, resolved one or two queries, and shown that some of the details were not quite correct. For the past eighteen months, Dr J. C. has been transcribing the contents of previously-unread chest of diaries, family letters, and notebooks. Amongst these were diaries kept by his great-grandmother, Charlotte Anna (nee Goodlad), and her daughters Alice and Charlotte Sophia (Lotty). were between Lotty, another sister, Frances Caroline (Fanny), and their mother and were written while was taking her Grand Tour of Europe in the summer of 1873. [1] J. C. Burne's edited collection of these letters, entitled With Mustard Leaves, Medicine and Parasol, was privately published in January 2001. [2] He has very kindly kept me abreast of his researches into Lotty's early history as revealed by the contents of the trunk. My own investigations have also turned up some additional information in the Shropshire Records and Research Centre, Shrewsbury. It should be noted that there are also few items of interest for biographers of Georgina Jackson. These include notebook compiled by Georgina Jackson for her Shropshire Word Book. A note by the donor, J. C. Burne's father Arthur (S. A. H. Burne), says that it was found amongst Lotty's possessions after her death in January 1923; he suggests that it was given to when she took over Jackson's folklore project. There are also few from Georgina Jackson seemingly to her publisher and leaflet laying out terms for her school. In addition, there are: an obituary for Lotty's mother, Charlotte Anna Burne, who died in 1893; letter written by speaking of Georgina Jackson's ill-health; and tiny newspaper cutting containing piece of blason populaire: I am of Shropshire, my shins be sharp/Lay wood on the fyre, and dresse me my harpe. Structure This update has two sections: additional information and solutions to problems mentioned in Part 1; and corrections of matters of accuracy. Solutions and Additional Information In Part 1, Gordon Ashman and wrote: Not trace now remains of [Lotty's] notebooks and letters (Ashman and Bennett 2000, 1). This was also J. C. Burne's impression when he wrote his portrait of The Young Charlotte Burne (1975, 173). material discovered in the old chest fortunately fills some of this gap. cover period roughly between 1865 and 1874 and, though they have no direct folkloric interest, are useful in fleshing out the picture of Lotty's early life (and, indeed, that of Victorian girl from monied family). J. C. has also discovered some sentimental verses in a secret drawer--written in Lotty's handwriting and apparently composed by her--which indicate an unhappy love affair or unrequited affection which occurred about 1879 and was over by 1883 (I still think of him, she wrote under the verses dated 1883, but don't love him any more. Yet, in her diary for 2 November 1883, Alice waspishly noted: Lotty wrote her love letters, great event). J. C. has also turned up an extraordinary letter to from George Laurence Gomme written in April 1890 after an FLS Council Meeting, which refers to her having been called the of Folklore Collectors (at that meeting?), and wishing her speedy recovery from bout of flu contracted, according to her sister Alice's diaries, in February of that year: May it please your Majesty! Your dutiful and loyal subject sends greetings on this day of meeting of Folklorists and ventures to express his high delight that at last one Folklorist has had the grace to think it, and the poetry to express it, that Miss is the Queen of Folklore Collectors. …