MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: Autogr. d. 22 ff62-641
My dear Mrs Lennard
I must send your name on a separate piece of paper, as the book must go from Macmillan as I do not keep a stock of copies by me, and besides I think booksellers packing is safer than home, if I had a copy I was sure was new all through2.
What a sad loss of all your precious books, that can never be repaired! We are looking forward to the 50th Consecration of Hursley church when there will be a great gathering and an octave[?] of services
We had a Te Deum for the victory3 in church the Sunday after we heard of it. Mr Bowles had three cousins there so it came very near. Today I have been reading of the grand reception in London
What a state the world is in – and is France ever to retrieve its general character, each generation falls lower than the last
Yours sincerely
C M Yonge