Dear Mr Bullock,
I send you Charles Simeon You see he was entirely taught by the Church and nothing else, so far as his first beginnings of religion were concerned. He disowned being a Calvinist; but I think his mistake was in studying Huguenot sermons. I do not know if you will put the Simeonite preferments into a note. I thought some explanation was needful I daresay you may know one or other of his three grand-nephews.¹ The very strong sense of devotion seems to belong to the family and I have little doubt that in these days he would be as strong a Churchman as they are

Yours truly
C M Yonge

Dear Mr Bullock,
I do not know Canterbury well enough to attempt it. I have only seen it three times cursorily once on the day of the Archbishop’s installation- the best person to undertake it would be

Miss Jenner¹
Preston Vicarage
Wingham
Dover

Bishop Jenner’s daughter who knows the Cathedral well and has a good deal of power of writing

I think I could do Salisbury

Yours truly
C M Yonge

Dear Mr Bullock,
Here is Salisbury. I am sorry I could find no more to say about it, the cathedral having been all built at once, and the Bishops not having been memorable except the last four.¹ Burnet I could not put in!² The sunshine on the Altar on the 15th of August is quite true. I have seen it twice

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

Dear Mr Bullock,
If you can wait a little while for St Maurice I will send him to you but I am very busy just now, and could not turn my mind to it immediately. I have Baring Gould and Alban Butler both also Fleury²

Yours truly
C M Yonge

Dear Mr Bullock,
I will try what I can do for Stephen Langton next week – if the Diocesan Synod leaves time.¹

I think it would be wiser to keep clear of Pope Pius V.² There are a good many R Cs that I should much rather deal with

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

Dear Mr Bullock,
St Paul’s Cathedral has outrun St Erkenwold, though the materials you sent me did not include his reconciling SS Theodore and Wilfred as may be found in their lives and which was a grand work. I have not the lists of Bishops of London but I have Nicolls Statistical Review which gives them. Also Loftie’s London¹

I do not know about Mr Grimshaw
Yours truly
C M Yonge

Dear Mr Bullock,
I think that with the book of Shropshire worthies I could manage Fletcher’s life. Lady Falkland is so well done in Miss Kavanagh’s Women of Christianity that I think I could write her from thence.¹ I suppose you are entirely at sea as to disposing of the book and cannot tell at all what you could allow the writers

Yours truly
C M Yonge

Dear Mr Bullock,
I send Fletcher and Lady Falkland with your copy of Fletcher for which I am much obliged.¹ I am afraid his life has turned out much too long as hers is too short. If it has to be cut down the bit about his noble birth could best be spared. His last Communion is wonderfully beautiful

Yours truly
C M Yonge

I am returning the copy to Mr Churton

Dear Mr Bullock,
I would have offered to write Fletcher’s Life, but I have hunted all over the house twice over and cannot find the book I once had, but no doubt you can get it from a library²

Yours truly
C M Yonge

Dear Mr Bullock,
I waited to answer till I saw whether an offer of a story I had made was accepted in which case I should have had no time, but I find I have and can manage the two lives[.] I have Hook’s Archbishops, and will make use of your materials gladly. I once had Frances Havergal but gave her away so I shall be glad of the loan

I think Charles Simeon ought to come in.¹ He did a great work and was far more of a Churchman than ‘Simeonites’

Yours truly
C M Yonge