My dear Mrs Elgie

I send the gathering here for the Altar Cloth. I hear this morning that Mr Harrison has not promised Crookham to anyone about whom the inhabitants have written, so it might be worth while to apply to him now, though I doubt it and I quite see all your reasons for wishing for a change. It is a great misfortune that Otterbourne is not an incumbency as it prevents the ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I am trying the abridging process upon Bishop Patteson, but I hope the latter part can wait to be reprinted till I get the corrections from the Mission itself.

I am much afraid that Lady Martin’s recollections about New Zealand, about which I wrote to you have been lost on the voyage. They were announced, and enquired after, but never appeared

I see the third volume of the Scripture Readings must stop with Daniel’s ... continue reading

My dear Miss Palmer I am delighted with both your papers, I did not write before as I wanted to read them aloud to my invalid friend, and we enjoyed them very much. I did not find out that the thundering Legion was coming till the clouds were at the Carpathian mountains.

Una and her knight I like very much too and shall be glad to keep them and put them in I do not see ... continue reading

My dear Arthur I think the redingote is wrong- but the geens and gaskins were worth having. Why should I not mean the Aryan classifications to be based on Grimm. I meant it for a pleasing exercise but I fancy only our spiders of a superior order will attack such a web!

Adams is my authority for durst being an old verb like burst, and is he not generally trustworthy? Certainly I never ... continue reading

My dear Arthur I should have written yesterday only that the Bp of Salisbury came to see a sick old farming man, and was a sight for sair een, who took up all my morning. I shall look out for the Maypole - my Sub is going to bring up the weeded Spiders this afternoon- 17 Chrysostoms! I think your Spider will have five competitors with the Aryans. I fully expect someone will take ... continue reading

Dear Sir I am sorry to say that I did not keep the address of the author of that excellent catechism I have enquired for it several times, but have never been able to recover it, much to my regret.

I have a copy of the account of the Hursley Church windows written out by Miss Keble, the sister, which I suppose is the same as the one of which you kindly offer me a sight, ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I send the two vols of Bishop Patteson by train today, having done all the abridging that I think they will bear, I believe it is about 100pp in each volume, and a good many lines besides so that with smaller type and thinner paper I think it will be reduced enough.

Since I began this has come the enquiry after the author of the Children of the Forest or the Three Knights. I ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan, This is all very satisfactory, thank you much. One thing more. Should not there be a facsimile of the autograph - I should like a page of that exquisitely neat distinct writing which never altered from the time it formed itself at Eton - and which spreads into sheets upon sheets of mine and yet I never stumble at a word.

I must put in a page with a list of the islands arranged ... continue reading

My dear Misey Here is a note from Mr Gurney. I send it in case you should be changing your address, in which case it might not be so safe to let him write direct even under the care of the Angels.

I was at Rownhams yesterday, and was sorry to hear of the new sorrow. Maria had had a cold, but was nearly well, Mr Wilson has left off crutch in the house

yours affectionately C ... continue reading

My dear Madam Pray thank Mrs Codrington very much for her kind present of Mota photographs I did not possess any of them before, though I have some of Norfolk island and Florida

yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Mr Freeman, Many thanks for King Ine. I hope we are not to wait thirteen years for his second part. It goes to my heart to lose St Boniface as a Devonshire man. What could have made them choose such a place for him to be born in as Crediton, if it was not true? No wonder Ceadwalla was tempting to the Witch.! I like Miss Macarthur’s Scotland much, it keeps ... continue reading

Dear Mr Furnivall I am afraid I cannot now read the books mentioned, as they have drifted out of my reach and I have much less time than I had in the old times when it was undertaken

Yours truly C.M. Yonge

My dear Miss Freeman I see how it has been about your Pleiades. You see we printed a large slice of them, though not the whole and we did not think you would care for the mutilated remains.

I cannot tell how we missed returning your St Chrysostom.

Three more sums have come in but no regalia

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Freeman I am very sorry if there is any mistake about one of your webs. Did you send an address and a stamp with it? We cannot return them without the latter, as when we get 20 answers or so it would be large undertaking for our finances!

If yours was late, it may have missed mention in the printed list. I get the whole parcel sent down on the first day of the ... continue reading

My dear Miss Thackeray Did you have a silver gilt button for fastening a glove the day you were here? We found one the next morning but as we had some visitors after you. We waited to ask them, and one of them was gone away, and could not be applied to.

I conclude you are still in your old home, and shall therefore address to you there.

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

I have actually spoilt an ... continue reading

My dear Miss Freeman Many thanks for the extract. I am very glad the answer has come to be gibbetted! People ought to have the penalty of exposing themselves so wonderfully.

You and Moneyspinner (Miss Marriott of Hythe) are the most effective Spiders.

I have taken her sum, because she did it in a conversation, but your nines, for nobody else attempted them

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Sir Edward

I forgot about Lady Beatrix Graham to which I certainly contributed nothing but the preface. I did not even profess to edit it so it was quite gratuitously attributed to me. I ought to have remembered that is had been so.

I am not quite sure where your knowledge of the ornaments of the County hall stopped short. I went over it about Christmas and thought the effect most beautiful

There is a collection ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Bramston

The Eastleigh girl would not go to London, so if you have a Winchester - or an Essex one, it would be a very good thing for

Mrs Spralt[?] 57 Brushfield St Spitalfields

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Miss Yonge, I hope you will excuse me for writing to you without an introduction under the following circumstances.

The most eminent Clergyman in Holland, Revd Dr. Kuyper told me that he is very curious to see you to thank you for the effect the Heir of Redclyffe had upon him. In Philip he saw a mirror of his own character, at least in its deficiencies & the change which you described in that character had ... continue reading

My dear Miss Palmer I waited to write to you till I had seen my way through the MSS, and I now see that Itys will come the first as a classical statement of the question

If there is a frontispiece I want it to be from him. I am not sure however whether you had a new statue in your eye or not. Will you let me know if you had

There is about 1/10 due to ... continue reading

My dear Miss Palmer I enclose the order. I wrote Hants after Sep upon the paper, so I hope they made it out to the right one It will be a great pleasure to me to come to Blackmoor [erasure] Thank Lady Selborne for her kind invitation.

What would suit me best would be to come when I leave Crookham, on the 3d or 4th of September, as then I could take the train at Alton and ... continue reading

My dear Christabel Some of the answers are at home, and some have followed me about and I must wait to act Mother Goose till I have got them all together as I hope to do when I get to Tyntesfield the end of next week. I have made acquaintance with Gridiron, whom I found staying at Wantage. She is not so lame as Gertrude but I should think in a far more precarious ... continue reading

My dear Miss Palmer The printer has put your name in full upon this proof - but if you do not wish it to appear, you had better scratch it out, though of course the Packet would be glad to have the story owned.

I am glad it did not come while you were occupied with the wedding bustle, they like to put the Christmas number in hand a long time in advance. I am now at ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik ‘Enquiring friends’ kept me in such a whirl on Saturday from the moment I came home that I could not acknowledge the very agreeable parcel I found waiting me, which I need not say I was very glad to see. It is certainly a pleasant amount to look forward to and I see that it does not include the sum for the Abridged Edition of Bishop Patteson, any more than for Lady Hester.

I ... continue reading

My dear Miss Palmer Here is Itys upon his copperplate. As far as I can judge he seems to me good though I would rather have had him standing - he is certainly free from Pan’s legs. You had better return him direct to Mr Cowie, 6 Paternoster Row; E C.

I am ashamed to find that my night cap stayed behind me - thank you for sending it to me - also the heath - of ... continue reading

My dear Mr Freeman, I think I was misled by the love of Vercingetorix, also of Sidonius Apollinarius whom I have admired ever since I met with him in Guizot, but I think I had better make a fresh start leaving all the Romans and Franks to be read in your history and starting with the Counts of Paris for my thread, and only making a short resumé to shew what material they came in upon. ... continue reading

My dear Elizabeth I have been waiting till the wedding was over to write to you and should have done it before post time today but that Mrs Newland brought her children to a dancing lesson and came in here. I am afraid you did not get the fine day on SS Simon & Jude though I don’t think it was quite so bad as some. Gertrude was very bad the day you mentioned ... continue reading

Dear Miss Cole I am much obliged for your book which I am sure I shall read with much interest as the fruit of so many thoughts

I hear from Mrs Montgomery Moore from Rawal Pindee which at least is near that beautiful Cashmere though she never will be happy in India.

Elizabeth is at Dittisham

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Elizabeth

I ought long ago to have written to you though you told me not, I fully meant to have done so, I was so delighted with the book, but we have had a sad time of illness with poor Gertrude She got better for a fortnight, and then came all the old troubles, and now she has another abscess under her knee and I do not think will be up for a ... continue reading