MS location unknown. Printed in Coleridge, Life, 326.
My dear Lady Frederick-
Gillian was very naughty, rather I think from want of knowledge of the world than anything else, besides spirit of opposition. I am glad you like Jane, somehow she has erected herself to me into the heroine. I find myself living in sympathy with my old people rather than the young. But I really do shrink from bringing Dr. May and Ethel on the stage again, he must be grown so old. I have not finished the last chapter to see whether I dare to make a great family gathering.1
1 am glad to have the opportunity of writing to you, as we have had a grand M. U. Council, and have modified the constitution. All the married, whether ladies or poor women, are to be members; only ladies are paying members, and a proportion are to be enrollers (like the G.F.S. working associates). All the unmarried helpers are associates, and the members are all to have the same card, which we freshly worded to suit mothers of all ranks, and I think improved it much. There is also to be a quarterly magazine at a penny, edited by Mrs. Jenkyns, South Stoneham, Southampton, who takes orders for it, and begs that the money may be advanced with the orders, so as to give her a start.
It is to have advice and anecdotes, and a little direct religious instruction for the very ignorant mothers, in the form of question and answer. I have been writing that, but it was to be submitted to the Bishop-
Yours very truly,
C. M. YONGE.