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To Arthur Donald Innes
July 13th1889

MS Girton College Cambridge, Yonge IV 12

Dear Mr Innes

Next year’s programme is my own Two Penniless Princesses – historical longish chapters. Miss Agnes Giberne has promised a story – and the Storm in a Teacup has to go on another half year1 I tried doubling the chapters, but there was not room. I think it is a mistake to sacrifice the story to the volume, as often in those I read, I see the development has been injured to get it to the prescribed length.

But I should like to see the Molyneuxes unless they are quite bound to begin in January.2

I had been thinking of writing to you about translating and abridging Madame Necker De Saussure’s Education Progressive really the best book on Education I know. It is too long to be done entire, but it is admirable in the practical part and the Mother’s Union would recommend it I know, indeed it has been doing so by the cumbrous French edition I could undertake it easily, and get it into shape for use.

The Guiding Principle in Art is by

Mrs Evelyn Heathcote3
Sparsholt Rectory
Winchester

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1Agnes Giberne (1845-1939) was a prolific author of science textbooks and fiction, but she does not seemed to have contributed to MP at this time.
2‘E.N. Leigh Fry’ [Ella Napier Lefroy], Shreds and Patches, or, Passages from the Lives of the Molyneuxes (London, W.Smith and Innes, 1890) was not serialized in MP.
3Grace Hussey married (1876) the Rev. Evelyn Dawsonne Heathcote (1844-1908), vicar of Sparsholt, fifth son of Sir William Heathcote.

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/2912/to-arthur-donald-innes-26

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