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To Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
March 3d 1876

MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: MSS. Autogr. MSS. Autogr. d. 33 ff 245-6

My dear Miss Sewell,

There is only one chapter of Heartsease a conversation. It was privately printed twice, and now people are always asking for it, so I am going to put it into the June Monthly Packet though I do not think it is at all worth all the curiosity about it1

The publisher sent me Miss Owen’s book just in time for me to answer a person who wrote to enquire whether the chapters were separately published. I will certainly mention it

I am afraid I have no autograph of bishop Pattesons that I could cut off, his letters all being closely written there is no cutting one off, and as our correspondence did not begin till he was in New Zealand I have no notes, so that I am unable to find one for you

With my kind regards to Miss Janetta

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1This was the additional chapter of Heartsease which explained what happened to the characters.
2A. C. Owen, who had contributed articles on 'Christian Art' to MP in 1874-5, had just published The Arts Schools of Mediæval Christendom edited by John Ruskin (London: Mozley & Smith 1876). He had commended the volume of MP containing these articles in a lecture later published in his The Pleasures of England (1884). CMY does not seem to have recommended it in MP, however.
Cite this letter


The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske.

URL to this Letter is: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/yonge/2546/to-elizabeth-missing-sewell-22

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