MS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters
My dear Madam
I sent for a Post-office order today for fifteen shillings, but it did not arrive till after post time. I have put it into another cover as the wise say it should not travel in the same with the letter announcing it. At the same time came the proofs which I enclose, I still think the other notices will not be too late, but you had better if you please mark the places where they should be inserted, and I will have a revise of the paper sent me to make sure they have made none of their wonderful mistakes in botanical names, I am glad you noticed the beauty of the white lily in the summer nights, when I have often watched the moonlight on them, but surely you did not mean to use the adjective long in describing a summer night.1 I suppose you were thinking of that delicious pre-longest evening twilight in July, so favorable to wanderings in the garden — and in which I saw the insides of your Cathedral at nearly 10 o’clock, a tale which has ever since been a wonder to southern children. I often recollect that noble east window and wish its painted glass was better deserving the name
Yours sincerely
C M Yonge