Dear Mr Macmillan

I am today sending Clay the last copy for the Scripture Readings, I suppose we may consider now whether the five volumes can be made more compact and profitable, and I hope Clay will finish off the present one quickly.

Thanks for sending all these notices of the Primer. It is odd I thought I had written up to MacMahon’s election, but perhaps Mr Green thought the siege made a better conclusion - and ... continue reading

Miss Yonge would be obliged if Messrs Macmillan would send a copy of the Story of the Christians and Moors to Madame de Witt, Boulevarde Hausseman Paris

Dear Mr Craik

Many, many thanks for prompt payment, an agreeable sight on a winter’s morning I think the story in the Monthly Packet will finish there about next spring It is not longer than the Three Brides, but has been in short chapters. I have not finished writing it yet, but the beginning may be printed when it is convenient. I am correcting the Moors and Christians gradually, and will send the result ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan

It is rather difficult to arrange the order of these books. Heartsease was out before the Daisy Chain indeed those four that I numbered first were meant to answer to the four Seasons, and ought to go together

In point of date, the Daisy Chain and the Young Stepmother are the next, but the Daisy Chain Trial and Pillars ought to come together

What is to be done about the lesser historical ones, ... continue reading

My dear Miss Phillimore,

I wish I could have put in the notice, but it came after all had gone to be printed, and when the proof came there proved to be no room to squeeze anything in but it shall certainly come in April

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Christabel

I am sorry to say the 11th is the only day Mr Wilson is available that week and that (unless she alters[)], is MFCK’s day. How would it be if you came here on Monday 9th I sent you to Rownhams on the 11th, and you then returned to Winchester the same day – either having something to come for you here or being set down at Chandlers ford or ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I enclose the receipts and agreement with many thanks. I hope the Primer is doing well. One Blunder ought to be set right. I can’t help thinking it must have been a misprint. I knew it so well - ie that the Karling line had not died out - but been set aside.

I have done a good many correction to the Christians & Moors and will finish them up when wanted.

As a matter ... continue reading

My dear Mme de Witt

You are quite welcome to make any use you please of my Scripture Readings. I have just completed them, though the last volume is not quite out. You must miss the spring after this severe winter Your En Quarantaine seems to have been a prediction of your winter of nursing. I am glad all is now well. We have all been having very severe colds, but ... continue reading

My dear Christabel

How soon do you like to come, for I am now quite ready for you. Mary has finished her visit, and then I had Elizabeth Wordsworth for a couple of nights on her way back from Foare. I hope your father is well again; and the Church getting on. We shall not regale you with an inspection this time, Mr Green was much more amiable, and the girls did very ... continue reading

Dear Sir

I am obliged by your letter, but the terms are much below what I am generally in the habit of receiving e.g. I have two pence royalty on that little Primer of French history which sells for a shilling

Neither should I wish much to under take Sir Philip Sidney, feeling the subject rather hackneyed

I remain Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam,

As you kindly consent to look at the tale of child life in Italy that I mentioned to you, I now send you the three first chapters (it has twelve in all) of 'The Angel of Viareggio'. I hope the thin paper will not inconvenience you, but I shall not repeat the experiment & the rest of the MS. shall be sent to you on foolscap.

I enclose a post card & stamps & trusting ... continue reading

Sir

The family of the Prince Consort has no surname being in fact too old- Von Sachs is its only distinction of the kind

your truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam

Aunt Judy’s Magazine generally has a little play every Christmas. It might be worth while to offer yours

Yours truly C M Yonge

This is a charming beginning. I shall be delighted to have it next Christmas and if possible will put the chapters in together, so as to have all in one vol. With many thanks

C M Yonge

My dear Miss Bramston

Mrs Elgie has asked me to answer your note as it is not quite easy to do so. Miss Finlaison is a very good and excellent person, and very anxious to make the girls good. She can give them a thorough good foundation in English, French and German, music and some drawing and makes them take interest in what they do. I think a good girl inclined to learn is very happy ... continue reading

Signora Villari’s graceful story has been safely received, and shall be commenced in January 1880

C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

I hope my sending the corrections on this pirated American copy of the ‘Christians and Moors’ is not inconvenient; they sent me a dozen, and I preferred sacrificing one to doing so from /with my own last copy

The lists at the end must not however be used to print from as the Americans have massed them together with a fine disregard of chronology

I have I hope corrected the careless blunders, It is ... continue reading

Sir,

I admire the brave spirit of the writer of this letter, and I am sure she would be the last person to intend it to be used as a means of casting imputations upon her Church.

So far as the Church is an Establishment she has nothing to do with Missionary effort

The Church of each colony is voluntary and is assisted by grants from the two great Societies, both wholly voluntary. There are immense numbers ... continue reading

My dear Miss Cole

I have been a long time answering you, but I waited to see Mrs Moore and hear more about the matter as it is one in which I hardly felt competent to judge. I am sure it is an excellent purpose, and I send you my shilling, though my country life is so utterly unconnected with anything of the kind that I can be of no use

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Canon Warburton

Thank you for the sight of the papers. The plan is just what I have wished for so long- and those Occasional papers are excellent.

I wonder how young the people are whom the Elementary questions are supposed to reach. As I see in the report that only 9 sets of answers are come in, I am afraid they are not meant for children below Confirmation age, school room and school ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan

Here is the list of materials for the little Christmas book.

The MS, and the clipping come herewith the four others must be sent by rail in the books in which they appeared. The Autobiography of Patty Applecheeks came out in an American paper, and my copy of it has been lost, but I am sending to Philadelphia to see whether I can recover it. The Wedding cake (a story of a ridiculous mistake) ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan

Old proofs of these Christmas stories have fortunately been discovered so I send them off herewith.

I find I must ask you to be kind enough to let me have £200 on account, or else £100 now and another £100 before Christmas. There have been some unexpected calls upon me which drive me to ask this favour of you, though I am sorry to have to do so so early in the year

Yours ... continue reading

I send herewith the other tale, Selma’s Secret Sighs in a Christmas number

C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan

Many thanks for your prompt response which relieves me of a good deal of worry.

Yes there are two short stories to be recovered from America, about the length of the Ghost. One I make sure of in a month or six weeks, the other must depend on the civility of Perry Mason.

They would both come at the end being modern, but if I need write any more to make up the set, I ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I will soon send material for the other pages. I have a queer little drama half written, and one or two other things that only require to be got into shape

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan

I am sorry for the mistake, it was not wilful for I looked at the stamp, and found it so pale that I saw nothing but the Cl which I took for Clay.

Will ‘By-words in action’ do for the name of this collection of stories, as all illustrate some saying or other. I have recovered one from America, and will send it in a day or two, but I think it will ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I am exceedingly obliged to you for this kind gift of good old Mrs Pascoe’s letters. She was indeed a most amusing and clever correspondent and her letters were always a great pleasure to my mother and me. I never saw her, but I heard of her from two old neighbours, Mrs Keble, who used to see her at Penzance and Mr Arthur Johns who was an old neighbour.

Pray thank Mrs Rogers much for ... continue reading

Dear Canon Warburton

I send you a spare proof of your final story in case you should like to have it apart from its adjuncts of the Christmas number

Yours very sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Selina

The Old Solitary Wasp has been excited to write out some recollections of this county in verse which may amuse some of the young Busy Bees.

I enclose my subscription, hoping it is right, but I am not sure

yours sincerely C M Yonge