Dear Madam

Let me thank you very heartily for your kind gift of your Fathers photograph which I shall value very much

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Christabel

I should like of all things to have the dear Fernando, but alas! I don’t see a scrap of room for him before Christmas Orina will last till the summer Our Young ladies till Christmas, Magnum Bonum 2 years - (I fear) Then Miss R N Carey begins a long story in July, and I can't see a chink to put any thing in till Our Young Ladies are ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Many thanks for this payment, which considering that I had £400 before ought indeed to satisfy me.

I wonder when Clay means to go on with the Scripture readings

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Christabel

Here are a not very brilliant set of answers I rather doubt whether the question about the fall of Constantinople was understood I expect there will be a rush at Gridiron’s ghost question.

I shall be very glad if Fernando ends by coming to me. Miss Webers At Sixes and Sevens, a conclusion to I wonder why is very disappointing Grace is so stupidly in love ... continue reading

My dear Christabel

Fernando is here and we have read his first five chapters with much enjoyment the only observations I have to make is that the little girls would have been Leonor and Catalina, and that surely Portugal was held by the Moors till Henry of Burgundy conquered it. I know that Arabia has not affected the language, but I think they possessed the country I like all this about the 5 sons ... continue reading

My dear Christabel

It is a beautiful story If May & I could be girls again how we should rave about those princes. I hope some one else is capable. One or two things- Why were appletrees rare? I thought they were genuine old English I’m sure crabs are! Alvarez is a patronymic he should be Alvare, and the Portuguese would have called Sir Walter Don Guiltierre

I think the ... continue reading

My dear Miss Kekewich

I am afraid I do not know of any such governess myself at present. The only one I do know of as free, is too young to be sent to the sea with young girls, and she has not passed the examinations though I hope she will try

I think that you will see in the March Monthly Packet the address of a Miss Kennedy at Cambridge who might be good to ... continue reading

My dear Miss Mildmay

I am much obliged for your Essex dialect, which I will put in when I can. I am much afraid such things will soon only be fossils, and that we shall only hear new fashioned vulgarisms

yours truly C M Yonge

Miss Yonge is glad to be able to inform Mr Hoskins that the 1st volume of the Beginnings of Church history is nearly printed and will soon be out. A large number of orders for it is the only way of cheapening it. Miss Yonge fears the Societies would not accept the book without omissions to which she could not consent.

Miss Yonge would be obliged if Messrs Macmillan would send copies of each of her works to

Sister Elizabeth St Mary’s Home Wantage

Also one copy of the Heir of Redclyffe for herself

Dear Mr Macmillan

Thank you for sending me this letter, I am very glad that there should be a Hindostanee translation. I have just heard of one nearer home into German

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Sir

Your were so kind to me when I was at Cambridge that I am venturing to ask you to give your attention to the letters and testimonials you are about to receive on behalf of my brother, who is very anxious to obtain the Secretaryship of the Governing Body of Winchester. I think that from his experience in many ways, he is very well fitted for it, and that as an Eton ... continue reading

Dear Mr Furnivall

You must have my Ns somewhere, for I put them all into their sack and sent them back to you I should think four or five years ago, I know it was just as a friend came to live with me, and I had to make room for her possessions

Yours truly C.M. Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

I think a letter of mine which I wrote last week to the ‘house’ must have been overlooked at least in part. I asked for a copy of the Heir of Redclyffe to be sent to myself, and a set of all my books to the Sisterhood at Wantage who want to have them to lend from their branch at Bombay

The one I asked for has never come and I have not heard ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Thank you for seeing to the books. The thanks for them from Wantage arrived the day before yesterday, but I could not write before as I only came home from Oxfordshire and am paying the price of my four days holiday by having more letters to answer than I can manage

yours truly C M Yonge

Did I say how charmed I was with your bright little sister in law?

My dear Mr Price

I think I may venture to write to you upon Julian’s behalf in this matter of the Secretaryship for I am sure your old friendship for him would make you inclined to help him, and I think there are qualifications which he has in a high degree, and on which I can really be an unpartial witness - i.e. - I have always seen that his military training made him well able ... continue reading

My dear Miss Medhurst

It is ungrateful not to have thanked you sooner but your letter came while I was from home and I have since been working through the accumulation of things that had arisen on me

What a good photograph yours is. I am sure they are much improved since there was only a little face on the top of a great crinoline. I am afraid the Infirmaries in many places - as well as ... continue reading

Miss Yonge would be obliged to Mr Collier if he would reserve a ticket for her for each day of the Conference. She encloses stamps for 5/

My dear Mr Craik

I am rather anxious to know the upshot of the new arrangement which we were to have this year into the details of which I do not think we went.

What however is really important to me to know quickly is whether I am likely to receive enough at Christmas to warrant me in promising a payment of £250 - remembering that I have had £200 in advance

I want very much to ... continue reading

My dear Mrs White

Miss Barnett’s niece, Emma Butler, who is here tells me that her Aunt is intending to write an account of your Convalescent home, so that I suppose she is only waiting for time. If she should fail, I should be very happy to have the account from yourself – or perhaps you have settled it with her – I am afraid my vote for Earlswood is disposed of

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

Many thanks for your letter, I send the agreement, with which I am quite satisfied. I also send by train four nos of the Christian Remembrancer containing four papers

Folk Lore & Old Stories

Lord Seaton & his Regiment

The La Ferronays family

Eugenie de Guérin

There are also- only I have not disinterred them Miss Sewell’s Principles of Education and the Life of Bishop Mackenzie but these will be enough for you to see whether ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik,

I return the Agreement signed with many thanks. I shall be quite satisfied with the arrangement about the £1000 for the copyright being paid half next March and half the March after.

One book you do not mention, the Christian names, I should be very glad if the end of that could be so got rid of, that I could cut it down correct it, add some recent discoveries and something about surnames, ... continue reading

Sir Mr Keble’s biography or even the title page of the Lyra Innocentium you would have seen that the whole of the poems is by him with one single exception, which is acknowledged.

The Child’s Christian Year is a compilation of many different poems by numerous authors

yours truly C M Yonge

Sir I am afraid you must tell me again of what poems you want to know the authorship. I am from home and I destroyed your letter, but all I remember seeing on the list you sent me were from the Lyra Innocentium, and were Mr Keble’s I return home on the 5th, but if you write sooner my address is Tyntesfield, Bristol

yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Christabel

Here are only two Goslings and those very poor ones. Mayfly says she has had no questions since April. Moreover Frog is going to be married in September so do not you really think it would be better to give a coup de grace to the Goslings and let them turn into Spiders. Somehow I think we might let each spider in rotation send me up a few questions to ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan

There is something in Mr Freeman’s essays that he wants me to look at. Would you be so kind as to let me have them - it is the volume with Charles the Bold in it

I hope the two French histories will come out right at last!

I always suppose some one is making holiday in August so I shall direct this so as to be opened by either you or Mr Craik

Yours ... continue reading

Sir I was obliged to let your letter wait till my return as I could not reply without referring to the book.

‘The Second Temple’ is an anonymous poem in a collection called the Casket made by Joanna Baillie some 50 years ago

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Moses Cardinal Newman - in the Lyra Apostolica

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Seventh Sunday after Trinity- Keble - Lyra Innocentium

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3d Sunday in Advent Mrs Yonge

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Good Friday Come to a desert place Wednesday in holy week Professor Anstice

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22d after Trinity St John the Evangelist Epiphany Whitsunday from [[otherbook:823]Translations of hymns from ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan

Thank you for the proof of the Primer, I hope to send it with additions in another week or so, as soon as I have finished what I have to do for Mr Freeman

I am glad you told me about the printer I wish printers would always mark their proofs visibly

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Miss Cleveland

I knew your name directly and well remembered your visit at Otterbourne. I am greatly obliged to you for the elucidation of reef of Norman’s woe. I was highly dissatisfied with the idea that it was connected with the White ship, but having nothing more definite to put in its stead I let it stand. I strongly suspect that the word Woe - which I see in one version is Oh, ... continue reading

My dear Augusta

It is a long time since I heard of you and almost as long since I heard of Kate, and I am anxious to know how she got on this summer I hope Ernest is quite well after his chicken pox. I went about looking for him at Domum till I met Mrs Morshead and she told me he was gone home. The only Saints day that they did ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan

I am sending today a third instalment of the Primer with additions, I hope you have had the others safely. I have sent them to you instead of the printers to save further mistakes and will follow them up with the rest

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan

Please let me have the rest of the Primer I thought I had it all, but I cannot find further than what I send.

I am waiting for Mr Freeman’s orders before I send back the French history

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss [Sewell]

Many thanks for your Revolution which looks very entertaining, though I have not thoroughly encountered its curling propensities and as you may suppose, I trust you! I shall be glad to have your further papers in the next year. They always tell.

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

I am sure I ought to be satisfied, considering too the sum for the copyrights in March, but just one question. Have I ever been paid for the last volume of Cameos, I do not think I have, as it came out just after last years settlement I have always had £100 for each volume.

I am afraid I have been very stupid about both French histories and I am still waiting for ... continue reading

Mother Goose & the last Gosling of the original brood, faithful where few were faithful found having eaten goose together on Michaelmas day solemnly dissolve the ancient Brood. Having begun with 12 intimate friends & cousins who actually did 4 questions once a month it has come to only two once in two months & of those generally only one answered by a few - while there is little acquaintance between many[.] It ... continue reading

My dear Mr Tyrwhitt,

There is a chapter on Basilica in the printer’s hands just now. I ought to have sent it up for October and I don’t know how I missed laying my hands on it when I was packing up the MS. I ought to have mentioned it when you wrote to me, and now I am terribly afraid I have given you ‘double double toil and trouble’. When the proofs come ... continue reading

My dear Mr Freeman

It is a great relief to my mind, though I am very sorry to have been so stupid and to have given you so much trouble and I fear Mr Macmillan so much expense.

I suppose I am fitter to dwell on character than sum up political history. Did you write the article about the truculent pictures in the illustrated papers, I was very glad of it

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

It is a ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I did not ask you for the purpose as you may see by my having lost your address and being obliged to send this to Cambridge to be directed on.

I thought it a pity you should not at least hear of it, and at any rate the child is not black!

If you think of it will you write direct to the lady. I am going out and must finish as fast ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

It is a beautiful engraving, and I am much obliged for your kind proposal. But I don’t think anything can be made of the ladies of the Crusades for those about whom much is known were not very edifying characters and the good ones are pretty much lost in the light of their husbands.

But what would you think of a history of the wars between the Spaniards and Moors- from the Moorish conquest ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I am afraid I do not quite remember the terms of the advertisement Can you send it to me again or its substance within the next few days. I ought not to have sent it or the address to her friends away but things do so accumulate that I am glad to make space! Here is a query which concerns you, and perhaps you will answer direct as ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Johns

So many thanks for your kindness in doing me that nice couvre pied. It was just what Miss Walter had been assuring me that the sofa specially wanted for the winter and it brightens us up beautifully I am sure it has not been weather for going about this winter or rather autumn

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Elizabeth

Gertrude has just been observing to me ‘You seem to have fallen in love with that story as you did with Miss Wordsworth’ which I suppose expresses a good deal of the way I have gone about in it. I do think it is a very fine and beautiful story, and I am not sure that there is not more substance in it than in anything the M P has had, ... continue reading

My dear Elizabeth

Lewis or Frank is the question of tragedy & comedy, and I am quite ready to agree to his being the greater conception– though one should certainly have liked Frank the best in real life. I don’t think I know many people who could have done him.

I thought afterwards, should not Gerance in his reformation have gone out to help his father, or at any rate to see about him. He ... continue reading

My dear Miss Barter,

I should think such a school as Mr Holland proposes would be a very good and useful thing. I do not see how I can help about it though I know so few people in London and I do not think there is anything for me to write about Mr Holland further than to wish him success, so I will ask you to do so for me.

I saw Alice Moberly last ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan

What I have by me in the way of authorities are the Universal History Lady Calcott’s in English and in Spanish a life of the Cid - Perez de Hyta (whence Washington Irving took his material, but which is only romance) and old Madiema - who is alarming - as he hardly ever has a paragraph, and when he does put a date, does not use figures!

I have picked out a ... continue reading

My dear Elizabeth

I believe (reluctantly) that you are right and that Ebb & Flow is too apposite to the present fashion to bear postponement, I think Macmillan would take such a story as that, and do well by it, I hope to send it off on Monday.

Gertrude thanks much for the paper about the works She has sent off a parcel today Yes, M.Guizot gave me that history of France as it ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I have got into a puzzle how to manage with the further Scripture readings. Clay has printed them so slowly that I have only gone on with them when the arrival of proofs has warned me that copy would be wanted. And now I find that the volume has come to its regular size - about 250 pp in the middle of the Acts - i e when St Paul is at ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

About the name of the Spanish book which certainly is rather suggestive of the uncomplimentary riddle ‘What is the difference between Truth and Fiction? History and Her story My book is really both - a bit of real history, and then a collection of the wonderful stories and ballads about it.

I do not know any book that does combine them both, and I want to mark that this does.

I shall send ... continue reading