MS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1856/51
My dear Madam
Many thanks for Wishop, which looks much improved by the omissions.
The M P was Sir William Heathcote MP for Oxford, perhaps you will even better like to hear that Mr Keble could not help listening to the Thorns and Roses with great interest in the middle of his work. I have put out the beginning of Wishop for March, but I cannot make sure of it, as there is a short story which must come in in Lent, and I cannot tell what room there may be. Will you be kind enough to convey my thanks to your sister for the note and proof received this morning. It is hardly worth while to trouble her with a note merely to express my thanks.
yours truly
C M Yonge
I forgot to add my thanks for the return of the postage stamps.
If ever Mrs Atkinson finds time for Tradition 6th it will be welcome, but I never reckon on contributors after marriage – like the inspectors of schools who complain that so many school-mistresses ‘yearly are lost to the profession’ by marriage2