I hope you have Eugénie de Guérin. You are one of the people to like her especially and extremely, with her sweet religious, pastoral spirit and . . . devotion to her brother. I am exceedingly in love with her myself.

My dear Frances, Is this a very outrageous thing I am going to propose. You must know Goosedom has had a shock and a revolution, chiefly induced by Mildred Coleridge having no time for it and her aunt therefore losing her interest in it. So after having very nearly broken up, we are beginning again in a more brilliant manner, and the thing is would you condescend to be a Gosling. All you would have to ... continue reading

My dear Mr Palgrave The shortest way will be to send you our number, to which you are very welcome as long as it can be of any use to you - though I should like to have it again ultimately.

You will see that a good deal of the scope of the article goes to the influence of Scott’s works in preparing minds for the Church movement, but the suppressed poetry breaking out is the main ... continue reading

. . . Barnacle article rather in the style of the Spring of the poets, and we wanted you to laugh with us. I think you know the Gattys, so I conclude you do not want an autograph from that quarter.

I am glad Dr Harris was able to go to George’s wedding, but I shall be glad to hear that he is safe back again Poor Hursley has been very forlorn all the ... continue reading

We have just finished Dr. Livingstone, noble man that he is; all that one can wish is that he knew what the Church meant. The grand simplicity of his courage and endurance is most magnificent. I am sure England has not come to degeneracy yet.

Dear Madam

I do not think Mr Clare resembles Mr Keble at all. I certainly never should have consciously taken his portrait, I loved and honored him too much

yours truly Charlotte M. Yonge

My dear Miss Yonge I have given our printer orders to go on with the 'Clever Woman'. I hope you will receive proofs at once & have a rapid supply. It will make some such work as 'The Trial,' as you wish.

I have corresponded with a friend of yours about 'Events of the Month.' I think the idea admirable the want is a crying one. But it should be [illegible] and well carried out. I hardly ... continue reading

My dear Miss Sewell, Miss Cleveland did not put her direction in full so that I must ask you to be so kind as to enclose this note to her. I am afraid people would have an over dose of America if I put in both journals together and I don’t think the contrast would be so much in favour of the North as she thinks, since these holiday makings, so pleasantly described are not quite ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Johns,

We are much obliged for your kindness, and if things - weather included turn out well - I hope to bring the Cricket and her sister in time for a four o’clock tea with you on Monday. I am afraid we cannot do more, as after that it gets so late and cold for an open carriage. Our basket only holds three so that my mother - though thanking you for your ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I have to thank you for sending me the parcel of German books, which I hope will much add to the correctness of my story. I am not sure however that one has not come for me to which I have no right -Alt-Nordisches Leben Von Dr Karl Weinhold -

Miss Keary told me that you had promised to get for her some Old Northern books, so perhaps it was meant for her. In ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge Will you kindly send back the book by Weinhold. It is for Miss Otté who is going to do a history of North Europe. Miss Keary also has been at work on the same region.

I meant to have dropped you a note tell [sic] you why I sent you Duncans book which I stumbled on in an old book-shop, where after an old habit I was prowling about. I thought this will ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan, Otterbourn was turned upside down yesterday by a grand wedding, so that I could accomplish nothing but sending off the book without writing.

I am much obliged by your proposal about the Clever Woman, and shall be well satisfied with the terms you propose, - and very glad not to have the stereotyping taken out of the £200. It strikes me that there ought to be another sheet in the first volume; as there ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Johns, Thank you so much for letting me [see] Mr Ruskin’s very characteristic opinion of the beautiful Griselda work. I have thought and talked it over with my mother, and certainly it is a complication, but would not the most satisfactory course be to ask some opinion of a person such as Richmond a thorough artist, and also a religious man, a gentleman, and father of daughters whether it would be his judgment ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge That extremely excellent and instructive person 'The Clever Woman of the Family' will be duly introduced to all your friends as per list. I trust we shall have her 'out' in a very few days, when your wishes will be attended to in this and also in regard to the other books you give me a list of instructions about. I am in occasional correspondence with Mr Henry Wilberforce, at least he ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Johns, I am afraid I have nothing very satisfactory to say my friend confirms my belief that there was an uncomfortable story about Ruskin and his wife - who you know is now Mrs Millais - and further adds that she does not think that real artists vote his opinion very high.

Neither is her view very favourable to a regular course of study for a young girl, she has known of an instance, ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan, I think I ought to refer to you a request I have had from Dr and Mrs Vaughan for leave to put two of the stories in Golden Deeds i.e. 'The last fight in the Colyseum', and the faithful slaves of Haïti into a ]book of readings for National Schools acknowledging where they come from, but I conclude that you have no objection. When there is a reprint, I have another faithful ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge I am writing to Mrs Vaughan & will tell her with how much pleasure I consent to her using the story from Golden Deeds. I will remind you when we reprint, that you may give us the additional story.

I don’t think I ever congratulated you on the marvellous good scotch you give us in the Clever Woman. I, a western man, from the Land of Burns, claim a classical purity in my ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan, This is a quick fire upon a busy man, but there are two or three things to say, and first that Mme de Witt has written to say that the Christian Names have not reached her, and asking whether you have sent them through any Paris bibliothèque where they could be enquired for. I also enclose a direction to which I should like to send a copy of the Golden Deeds. It ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge I sent the copy Golden Deeds to the Princess addressed as you wished to her governess by post yesterday. I hope it will reach her soon.

The copy of 'Christian Names' I sent to Mdme de Witt through Messrs Williams & Norgate, as it would have been expensive to send by post, and moreover would have been apt to get bruised and battered, being large and heavy. They explain that they have not parcels ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge

Mr Sutcliffe is a very old friend of ours. I must write him on the subject of plain hand. He[,] the head of an Educational department[,] ought to know better.

I have sent you four copies of Golden Deeds through Nutt & Wells. I suppose you can get them thence.

My sister threatens you with a letter. But we wanted to see the first chapter in type first. The printer is doing this.

Yours ever truly A. ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan, I send a second instalment of the Dove in the Eagle’s Nest, I suppose about enough for another number.

I hope I am to have the proofs, for there is a mention of Maximilian in the first chapter as grown up which I must alter.

I have done two more chapters of Bethlehem, - that is I have written them, but I am not satisfied with the second of them.

Many thanks for the four ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge I ought to have acknowledged the copy for the new number earlier, but I wanted to write you a longer letter which I cant do today after all.

I would be glad to see what more you have written of Bethlehem, when you have satisfied yourself - or at least approximately - who could satisfy themselves on such a subject. The young Artist is ready to work whenever you like.

Shall I pay the ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan, Thanks, I should prefer having the monthly sum in cheques here, but the £200 to be paid to Messrs Hoare. I hope the proofs are coming though it is rather late if the Dove is to come out this month. I am afraid there are some anachronisms in it, and I did not give it the looking over that I should have done if I had thought of not seeing it again.

Here ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge The cheque for £200 was sent you last night. My clerk reminded that former remittances were so made. The monthly payments will be sent the same way.

I am going to have the second chapter as the first set up in type. I will venture to go over it and make any suggestions that strike me.

Yours ever faithfully A. Macmillan

Dear Mr Macmillan, Many thanks. Our letters have crossed but the enclosure was welcome in any way of having it.

I hope to finish Abraham today and send it

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Yonge I am exceedingly vexed to find that proofs had not been sent to you of the first number of the 'Dove'. I am afraid that it has been much my fault. But as our Editor has generally been in direct communication with the contributors & has given the printers instructions to send, or sent the proofs himself it did not occur to me, and your notes asking for them did not make ... continue reading

My dear Cobweb, I should not have bothered you about your questions this month but that Chelsea China told me that your Mother was so much better that she thought you would be able to do them or rather ask them- and as it is so we shall get the order of things right again.

I think the two questions that will make the most variety would be the history of the Knights’ [sic] Templars and the ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan, In the first place I have a beautiful photograph to thank you for, which arrived here viâ Nutt and Wells this morning, and the subject of which much excites our speculations, and adds pleasant mystery to our admiration.

Next I return the first sheet of Bethlehem, the appearance of which I like much. I think there should be a text and a verse to each chapter. Do you wish to have each chapter ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge The photograph is from a picture by Mr Farren the young artist whom I wanted to illustrate your Bethlehem. I was anxious to know that you thought him up to the mark. The picture was from Kingsleys Saints Tragedy, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary carrying her child to the altar in the early morning. I think it indicates a power considerably above average of entering into a spiritual conception. But I should be ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan, Many thanks for the cheque for £25 for this month’s Dove. I am not sure whether a letter is still a sufficient receipt, if not please let me know, and I will send a stamped one, but receipt stamps are not easy to come by when one is out of the article, unless we are sending to Winchester, therefore I think it better to acknowledge the cheque at once. And at the ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge Your note will do very well in the mean time. If I can remember, tomorrow, I will get you and send you a small formal receipt book which you will be able to sign with little trouble.

I have only got the first chapter in type, the one I sent and you returned. I read it through once to myself and then aloud yesterday. The impression I had at first was somewhat confirmed ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan I can quite enter into what you say of that first chapter’s meagreness. There were things I wanted to keep in reserve, and I do not think one’s mind gets so worked up to the point /at first as after having gone through all the preliminaries and preparation. I wanted to keep Bethlehem by daylight /on the Gleaning of Right for the Anointing of David, and therefore made less of the scenery ... continue reading

My dear Miss Cleveland, Thank you for your very interesting despatch, which we read with much enjoyment. The account of the Freedmen is especially interesting, and I feel quite sorry to have to put it off so long, as I shall be obliged to do, in order to get to the end of the Southern journal. I shall however have a letter written from Philadelphia in the next number, giving the account of the general mourning ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge, It is most kind of you to take my crude criticism in so good part. I did think of the parts, and your possible motive in dwelling on the opening chapter in the slight way you have done. Still with an eye to what is coming I cannot but think that the opening should be fuller, more sonorous and in a higher key. But I have asked Mr Clay to let ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan,

Thank you for Mr Trevelyan’s Cawnpore, which will I am sure be terribly engrossing reading.

I waited to write both because I was trying to satisfy myself with the beginning of Moses, and because I wanted to see what the London Library would send me. And the latter is just at present - Nothing, so I should be very much obliged if you would lend me Stanley’s Sermons in Palestine and Thomson’s and ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge I am waiting till the printer sends the whole of what you have sent, in type, before any more detailed remarks or suggestions. I am sure I shall feel more clearly what its effect is when I see it in a larger mass. I am very hopeful both from what I have seen of it and from what you say.

I sent you Cawnpore, because it struck me as so noble in tone, thought ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge I quite hope to write to you about the Bethlehem this week. I have the duplicates, but have not got time to read them at a sitting as I meant.

Will you kindly send the Cawnpore notice to me. Mr Trevelyan has just been in. He was much gratified by your estimate of his book. For long your books and name have been familiar and dear in their family.

Yours ever faithfully A. Macmillan

My dear Mr Macmillan, Here is the notice of Cawnpore but I shall not be surprised if you do not think it the thing. The whole was too overpowering to say many words about and I have run into mere narrative more than I meant at first from the very force of the events. I am obliged to send it without any other eye over it, as my mother cannot bear to think of the horrors. ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge I was only able last night to read over carefully and coherently the whole of what is now in proof. I like it very much in many respects. But in what was my main idea in the work, and which I thought you agreed with me in, it really is seriously lacking, and the lack of this idea seems to me to deprive it of the unity which would so greatly increase its ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan I waited to answer till I had my proofs back again. I am not quite sure what is the best line now to take. Indeed I suppose after all that it is never quite possible for one person’s idea to be thoroughly realized by another. My notion was to show first why the Incarnation was needed, and then to trace the gradually expanding promises and stages of preparation - making each of ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge It is most kind of you to take all my suggestions as you do. Indeed I do not want any one else to do the work unless you really find it distasteful to you - which I hope is not the case.

I am quite willing to wait your perfect convenience. I daresay ideas such as the ones I was fancying for the book, are not to be commanded, and it may ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan, You are very kind about the undertaking, and I certainly should much regret giving it up, if those very capricious things ideas can be brought into accordance with the plan. But if it will not disturb your arrangements very much, I think I had better look to its completion for the autumn of 1866, rather than the autumn of 1865. I never have quite so much time in the summer, or rather ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan It does not seem after my last letter that this is the moment to write to you about a fresh plan, but this is a matter that Miss Sewell and I talked over together last winter, and which has been waiting since for her to have time to give her mind to it. I send her letter to speak for itself. You know she has for many years taken girl pupils to ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge Any idea of a book that commended itself to you and Miss Sewell as adapted to girls reading must be a good idea. Also my sister-in-law to whom I have mentioned the idea & also shown your letter seems greatly pleased with it. To myself I am afraid that besides the obvious difficulty which Miss Sewell perceives of getting it in due company, there is another which has put itself before me ... continue reading

It is in an appendix to collected editions of Mrs. Hemans’ life and works, where she had made notes of subjects from history suitable to write poems upon, unluckily without saying where they came from. I have watched for this story for years . . . I will write to the friend who owns the copy of Mrs Hemans from which I took it.

My dear Mr Macmillan, Thank you for your note. Miss Sewell is coming here to talk the matter over, and sketch our plans next Wednesday week and then I will write again

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Sir, I am obliged by your letter, but I am afraid that other engagements are likely to prevent my becoming a contributor to the proposed journal—and at any rate I could undertake nothing without fuller information.

Yours faithfully C M Yonge

Dear Miss Yonge I am sure that when Miss Sewell and yourself meet you will divide the history as it will be best. I only venture to say that it has struck me more & more, as I thought of it that divisions of the History, such as seemed called for should be made as far as possible according to Spiritual or Vital Articulation not by a mere arbitrary division of reigns or countries. I have ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan Somehow my direction book has been faithless and I have missed Mr Masson’s address, so I am sending the new chapters of Dove etc. direct to you. I am afraid the story may be thought to flag a little just here, but I could not help it, and there is plenty of incident to come after the next division.

I think Miss Sewell’s idea was to divide by periods. I think I should ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge The M S. has come all right. Sending as early as - I am thankful indeed you do, to address him here is the simplest way. His private address is 2 Newton Villas Finchley New Road. N.W.

I shall be very glad to hear about the result of your conference with Miss Sewell. My only feeling in the suggestion I made re - Montfort was that each volume - supposing it is found ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan I think Miss Sewell and I pretty well came to this conclusion that the first of our periods should begin with William the Conqueror and end with the absolution of King John, so as to make its leading idea the great strife for supremacy between Church and State. I believe we have plenty of materials for a volume. She under takes the compilation of the materials, and I am to write the ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge Your scheme as decided by Miss Sewell and yourself seems to me very admirable. The one question is the compactness and vivid unity, which will be hard rather in an [illegible] such as you propose. But with artists like yourself [and] Miss Sewell there should be no difficulty[.] the thing ought to be very interesting indeed.

I have read all the Prince and the Page down to the present month. I think it ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge I have seen the lithographer this morning and shown him Miss John’s drawing. He, I am sorry to say, was more emphatic against it than even I felt. Would you mind my going to my friend Mr Farren I do not like seeming to slight your friend but indeed I doubt much whether Miss Johns could do justice to the charming story. Mr Farren has greatly improved since he did the [[cmybook:20]Little ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge Mr Maclear’s address is

Rev G. F. M. 24 Elgin Crescent Kensington Park Gardens[[footnote:1]

Many thanks for your kind [illegible] about the illustrations. I think on the whole it would be dangerous to employ an unpractised pencil. On some future occasion I shall be very glad indeed.

My people at home have been reading your cameos, and think they would make a nice book. I am inclined to think so too - in a cheap form

Yours ever ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan Would you be so kind as to add your signature to this cheque. I never perceived the omission till I sent it to be changed.

My brother has been seeing Huntley and Palmers biscuit manufactory, and has written an account of it, which he tells me to offer to you, in case it should be supposed suitable to the Magazine, it is really very curious and entertaining.

I am afraid the earlier cameos want a ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan Thanks for repairing the omission. I believe ladies always enjoy gentlemen doing what they are so apt to do themselves.

I enclose my brothers biscuits, much hoping they may answer the purpose.

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Mrs Johns,

I have been waiting to write till I could see whether we could manage bringing Alice Coleridge up to Winton House, as we quite hoped to do at the beginning of her visit, but our having other friends with us all last week made it impossible to be contrived, and now she is going away on Thursday and I do not see my way for either tomorrow or next day, so I ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan I send the rest of the MS of the Dove in the Eagle’s Nest as it is all finished now, and I shall be going from home about the beginning of September into Devonshire first, and then perhaps to London some time in October - when I hope I may see you.

How soon will the last chapters of the Prince and the Page be wanted? Since it began to come out I ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge The MS. reached us safely. I will [illegible] distribution in the months

We shall be very glad to see you when you come to town. It is just possible that I may be gone to America, but my wife & sister are at home; and we recently made a valuable addition to our neighbourhood , 'the author of John Halifax',whose husband Mr Craik, has become my partner, has taken a house quite near ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan, Thanks for the cheque. I enclose the receipt.

I do not know whether the British Museum has a copy of Theurdanck - probably it would I think, but if you should be in Oxford, there is a beauty at the Bodleian, a much better one than that which I have here, which is only lent to me.

You should also look at the wonderful wood cuts in ‘Der Weise König.’ There is a demon sitting ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge I will see Theuerdank somehow though I fear I shall not be at Oxford before I go to America on the 28th. The Bodleian dont let books out - in which they are quite right. Cambridge U.L. does - in which they are quite wrong, though I often benefit by it. I have written to Cambridge. When I see what the pictures look like I will be able to judge how the book ... continue reading

Mrs Yonge informs Mr Sedgwick that the Hymn ‘Think of the Mercy’ - was written by a young lady who died at fourteen, many years ago, she was the youngest daughter of the Dean of Winchester. The other hymn ‘And is the day of mercy set’ was taken from a book ‘by a Layman’. The book having been a borrowed book the publisher’s name cannot be referred to

Dear Miss Yonge The colonial conscience exists as you see in relation to copyright. If you will kindly sign the enclosed receipt we will be able to recover for you munificent sum of 11/8d. for the wrong done you by the sale of Yankee reprints in British territory.

I am not going to America after all, & will, I trust have the pleasure of seeing you at my house when you come to London. Will you kindly ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan, Thanks, here are the receipts. I think I once got 5/ in like manner before from the Cape. I am not able yet to speak with any certainty of our plans. We have just offered ourselves to my uncle for the 8th of September, and there is such a vista of relations to stay with when once we get into Devonshire, that I do not think we shall come to London till the ... continue reading

It was a great delight to me to receive a letter from Mr. Keble, by the February mail from England. How kind of him to write to me; and his words are such a help and encouragement.

I dare say I shall see Merivale’s Lectures soon. Nothing can well be so wonderful, as a proof of God’s hand controlling and arranging all the course of history to those who need it, as a subject for adoration ... continue reading

My dear Marianne- We were at Hursley two days ago, and Miss Best looked so melancholy about Mrs. Keble that we were quite frightened; however, she came home from a drive and seemed to me much better than when I saw her last. I wish Queen Emma was over, but there had been some cross purposes of letter-writing, and they were not sure when her four days were to be. I have just seen that Miss ... continue reading

My dear Fanny, You and Emily have exactly the memory that may be called kind – Many thanks to you for the very pretty little snow tip butterflies, which are of a species highly to be commended. I hope shortly to wear them into Devonshire where I believe we are going next month - I think the present visitors at the Vicarage are decidedly wholesome, being the brother and sister but I dread the chance of ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge on money [?] I enclose a cheque as usual. I am off on a brief holiday to Scotland, my American trip being abandoned for this year. I hope to be home for good & may it be so - by the end of September and quite looking forward to seeing you when you come to London in October. In case you have any point of importance to bring before the press, a ... continue reading

Dear Sir, Mr Macmillan asks me to answer to you the lady’s enquiry about the Strayed Leaves, which are strayed indeed!

The fact was that I wrote a sort of conclusion to Heartsease, which was called Last Heartsease leaves. It was not worth publishing, but it was printed for a bazaar some years ago, and I have never heard the last of it. I put it at last into the last number of Events of the Month, ... continue reading

My dear Cobweb, I am staying here with the Secretary and we both give our parting greetings to one of our oldest original members. I wonder if you will ever have time to continue the Composer series in the Barnacle- I remember when Christabel told me how many lives you proposed, I was rather alarmed for the chance of the Barnacle living long enough to contain them all.

If you wish still to see the said ... continue reading

Dear Madam, I am not aware whether “The Clever Woman” has been translated, but perhaps you will answer the enclosed yourself.

Dear Madam Yours faithfully Geo: Lillie Craik

Dear Miss Yonge I am home again and at work, having greatly enjoyed my holiday.

I hope to see you soon in London. Will you kindly give us notice when you are coming. I am anxious to see what can be done, if anything in the way of a vignette for the “Dove”.

Yours ever truly A. Macmillan

Many thanks for the information you kindly sent Mr Craik

My dear Mr Macmillan I enclose the receipt with many thanks. Your letter followed me hither this morning. I think we shall be in these parts about a fortnight longer - and shall then come to a place about a couple of hours of London - whence I hope to run up for a few hours to town, and I shall then be able to talk over matters with you. I fancy it will be somewhere ... continue reading

Dear Mr Humbert, I have just received a note from Lady Susanna Blunt asking me the day and time of the opening of St Cross, and whether tickets will be necessary for admission to the services. Being unable to be present I had unfortunately destroyed the notice you were so good as to send me, and thus I cannot answer her questions. Would you therefore be kind enough to send one of the papers to her ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan My London plans have dwindled down to the smallest span - i.e. - to running up for a day with my sister in law on Wednesday the 25th. I hope to call at 16 Bedford St somewhere between 12 and ½ past 4.

Would you send me a line to say whether I shall find you, and if one time is more convenient than another. Please write by Mondays post as I shall have ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge I shall be here on Wednesday from 12 till 4½ and very glad to see you. Only much regretting that your stay is to be so short.

Yours very truly A. Macmillan

Dear Mr Macmillan Happening to have an excess of M.S. luggage, I am rather glad to send off an instalment of “the Chaplet of Pearls” instead of packing it up. It threatens to be longer than the Dove, and there is a good deal more still to be written, and probably rewritten.

I believe I omitted to say that it would be the most convenient way to me if you could pay the £235, the balance of ... continue reading

My dear Miss Sewell, I have meant to write to you for a long time past, but you know how one’s good intentions fail one when one is holiday making. However my holiday comes to an end tomorrow, and I hope to be heartily at work again next week. Meantime, I ought to have long ago confessed that it was all a delusion of mine about that Lanfranc article. John Coleridge had meant to write one, ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan, Most of these illustrations I like very much, they are full of life, and the King very dignified, if they are lithographed I suppose it is too late for alteration, but the faces of Eleanor in the second, and of the Page in the first are rather distressing, and I think that in the second the page is rather too short and stocky to give the notion of one who was to ... continue reading

My dear Christabel Photography must certainly turn you into a most pensive mood. You are a great contrast to the solid jolly damsel in the old Gosling book. Your Ridge is very good. I will send it round with the answers, but as yet I have had no answers but Cricket and Lady bird, and the Turks cap has been so ill used that she has had neither questions answers nor Barnacle, this time – so ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan By no means did I mean the graceful little lamp on Golden Deeds - nor the Dove in the Sunday Book - nor the well in Cawnpore. I meant such a high priest and book as are outside Smith’s Biblical dictionary; or some of the whole pictures of men and women one often sees upon books, - spoiling the whole effect of the real illustration within. It was odd that I asked my ... continue reading

My dear Miss Warren Thank you for the two little books - Yours I do like greatly, but I am afraid I can’t quite take to your friend’s. I think it is too puerile. Don’t you think it might have been made easy without saying that David’s face was nice or that they played prettily - and the children that have to be told that there were no guns, would be rather amazed at hearing that ... continue reading

My dear Madam That poem on the Sabbath Bells was given me by Lady Lucy Herbert, Lord Powis’s sister, at the time when she was collecting subscriptions for bells for Auckland Cathedral New Zealand. She sent it to me undoubtingly to be printed with an appeal we were then making. She has since married and I cannot remember her present name - but perhaps you know her, and at any rate her sister, Lady [[person:680]Harriet ... continue reading

My dear Maggie

I am extremely disappointed not to be able to come in today, when I had so fully reckoned on doing so, even for months past. All the more because I believe that Edith and I are your only remaining sponsors. But no doubt there are more prevailing prayers offered by those out of our sight. I have still the Daisy Cross that was a memorial of your Baptism, and called forth (I believe) ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan Will you direct this on if you know the address - if not perhaps Mr Williams would kindly do so. M. Pichot wrote to ask my sanction for translation of the Dove, and I answered that I had already given permission to Mlle Souvestre. But the next thing I heard was that Mlle Souvestre had given it up for want of time so that I must write to him again, and I had ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I have written a new preface and sent it to Spottiswood. If I did not send the former one to you I wonder what I did with it, I suppose it will come out of some strange corner.

I am glad you and Mrs Daniel think well of the Chaplet. I only wish I could give my French ladies more French grace. I have about four chapters more written but not re written, and ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan, I suppose the Prince and the Page will be out next week, so I enclose a list of the presentation copies. I hope I sent back the last proof, but it was only of the index, so it matters not at all, unless it has caused a delay. It has been a confused week, for the little girl, after some days of hopeful improvement suddenly lost ground and died early on Thursday morning. ... continue reading

I would think that Mr Lea’s proposal was a very good one, and that the Golden Deeds might be very useful as such a class book. But I imagine that to give it currency, it would be advisable to get it placed on the list of books recommended by the Council of Education people. I suppose there would have to be some omissions to make it into so cheap a book.

Yours sincerely C M ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan, I shall be very glad to mark off the chapters that would suit best for the school abridgement of Golden Deeds. Having tried some on my own school children I can do it the better. I should fancy the reading book Mr Lea proposes to be something of what Dr Vaughan was about, and I also know a lady who I believe has one in hand.

Tell me how soon you would like to ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Johns, I suppose you are enjoying a Christmas rest, indeed I almost expect to hear that Mr Johns is spending his holiday on a visit to Katie. The business of my note is however to tell Katie or ask you to be so kind as to tell her, that we are having a great revolution in the state of goosedom. Some goslings having grown lazy and some outgrown it, there is to be ... continue reading

Dear mr Macmillan, The Prince and Page look very well, and I hope will thrive as well as they look. I think I sent the names for the copies - but I suppose the general mass of them are not ready yet.

If my brother’s M S about the Reading Biscuits is not available and can be recovered he would be very glad to have it again.

With all Christmas wishes to the Elms party

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Child, I am sorry to say that my dearest wife is unable to write you a little Christmas greeting as she had hoped, and as you simply have earned by your better than best behaviour in writing to her so regularly, for which we can never love and thank you enough. I wish I could say that she is at all better, but her breathing and palpitations become, I fear, more and more troublesome, ... continue reading

My very dear Child, This comes first to say that, to my very great relief, I found this morning the two letters in a drawer in which I myself had specially lodged them for safe keeping, and herewith they come, saving something to myself which he would not perhaps like to have shewn. How precious it all is, and what thoughts it brings over one (among others) of one’s own ways. . . . We ... continue reading

My dear Mr Shipley, I am afraid that such an awful subject would not suit with anything so light as the Monthly Packet, and that I had therefore better return it which I will do the next time I send into Winchester, I send you the prospectus of a cheap missionary magazine, which Miss Mackenzie hopes to make very interesting

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

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