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To Arthur Donald Innes
Elderfield Otterbourne
Decr 22d [1892?]

MS Girton College Cambridge, Yonge IV 5

Dear Mr Innes
Thank you for your kind letter, I suppose there will always be rubs of opinion when three people representing different generations of thought work together if in general principle they accord; and I know I am apt to despise popularity more than perhaps is fair in fellow workers to whom it is more important

As long as there is nothing irreverent tending to ‘Higher Criticism[‘] or to trenching on delicacy I am satisfied and when I have been worried it has been from fear of some of these things – 1

My object always was to make the Packet a handmaid to the Church, and I think in the main, it is the same with you.

I am sorry if I was inadvertently discourteous about the Outlook2

I am afraid Miss Coleridge is very unwell No doubt she has written to you that she is gone to Malvern.

I once asked you to send on London Society but if you can stop its coming I should be glad. The story my friend was reading turned out so badly that she never wishes to see it again. A good deal is a specimen of what a serial ought not to be.

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1The falling circulation of MP had led to attempts to make it more up-to-date, and to CMY's sharing the editorship with Christabel Coleridge.
2An Old Woman’s Outlook in a Country Village (London: Macmillan 1892). Presumably Innes felt that as the sketches had been serialized in MP CMY ought to have offered him the option of publishing them.

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/3209/to-arthur-donald-innes-17

One Comment
  1. Ellen Jordan says:
    March 13, 2011 at 2:36 am

    “Presumably Innes felt that as the sketches had been serialized in MP CMY ought to have offered him the option of publishing them.” I doubt if this is correc t. It looks as if CMY always offered her MP contributions to Macmillan even if they did not always take them. All the titles that Innes had a claim to either pre-dated the move to Macmillan (like Castle-Builders) or had first appeared in the Magazine for the Young (like Countess Kate).
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