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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIV, Issue 14, 8 April 1905, Page 42

There was recently a passage at arms between Miss Marie Corelli, the novelist, and a certain Miss Coals, a schoolmistress, who has a class immediately across the street from the writer’s home. Part of the school exorcises, it seems, consists in the study of music, and this proved particularly disagreeable to. Miss Corelli. So the following note was sent across to the music teacher; “Miss Corelli presents her compliments to Miss Coals, and bogs that she will be good enough to arrange so that there may be no singing class between the hours of ten and one. these being Miss Corelli’s working hours, when distractions are peculiarly distasteful.” The white-ap-roned maid who bore, this rather unusual missive was detained long enough to bring the answer. It ran:—“Miss Coals presents tier compliments to Miss Corelli, and begs to state that if such n course is likely to prevent the writing of such a book as ‘The Sorrows of Satan,’ she would rejoice in arranging a singing programme for every day from nine to two.” —“Argonaut,"