Dear Miss Hutchins

I am so sorry I did not send these before. They came at a very busy time, and I am sorry to say I put them into a drawer with some Christmas cards and forgot them till Miss Cazenove reminded me.

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam

Would you be so kind, in returning the proofs of ‘the angel of Viareggio’ as to address them direct to the printer

Messrs Clay & Taylor Bread Street Hill London EC

If they are addressed to the Editor, they remain at the office till a parcel is sent to me, and so we get them too late to profit by your corrections

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Miss Medhurst

Many thanks for your little books.

I dare say you will go on and prosper

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam

I do not think your duties are very definite.

1st to induce a bookseller within easy reach of your Branch to keep a depôt of GFS literature

2d To manage the Book slate at festivals

3d to know the numbers of GFS magazines taken in the Branch

4th to know whether the girls have access to lending libraries and if books are borrowed from the Diocesan Library to manage the correspondence

5th To fill up the report ... continue reading

Dear Madam

The illustrations are most beautiful and I am very much struck with the expressiveness and good drawing of all the animals. Unfortunately I have mislaid your first letter and cannot refer to it, so that I am not sure whether it was sent with a view to future publications, or to plans of publishing it.

I have no power to change my own illustrators, but if you liked, I could send it to Macmillans ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I am today sending your book to Macmillans 29 and 30 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, and asking if they can give you one of my books to illustrate. It might be a good plan for you to call there, tomorrow or next day. Send up your card and ask for Mr Craik or Mr Macmillan, mentioning my name.

If you cannot call, write, and say how the book shall be returned asking if ... continue reading

My dear Mary

In the autumn a Mr Yonge in America, an Engineer chose to send me the photograph of his little daughter whom he had named Charlotte and he sent a description of his arms, wanting to know whether he could be of the same family. They were not the same as ours, nor as those to which we failed to shew our claim but Julian thought they were the same as yours. ... continue reading

Dear Madam

Bishop Jenner tells me that I should apply to you for permission to use two of Dr Neale’s Songs of the Trades in a little book of poetry for children which I am putting together for Marcus Ward The Songs of the Engine Driver and the Silk Thrower are those that I mean, and I may perhaps also wish to have the Ironfounder, as well as the ballad of Aristomenes in the Greek ... continue reading

My dear Florence

You have a birthday so seldom that one recollects it, so pray accept my best wishes and this tiny book. I am afraid there is a little black speck on its cover, but do not look to reject it on that account I hope you received the second volume of Thrupp on the Psalms. I do not like all of him, though I have learnt a great deal from him, he does not ... continue reading

My dear Madam

I am very sorry that Mr Macmillan was so disappointing. He might as well have looked at the drawings I have been waiting to hear from Mr Ward, 67 Chandos St, Covent Garden He will gladly see you, and I sent him the MS of the Bear and the Goblin. You had better make an appointment with him mentioning my name; and shew him some of your drawings ... continue reading

My dear Frances,

We have had a chance of seeing the new (April) Aunt Judy, so we will not benefit the revenue by the transmission of your copy this time

Poor Alethea, one sympathises with her, but she is very naughty, and I am wondering what her form of discipline will be. We have had a splendid Easter, and the dry weather so favoured the Lenten services that they were remarkably well attended, and the church ... continue reading

My dear Annie-

These are such deep, wide questions that one cannot answer them off-hand. The Three analogy goes much further in nature and in grace. For instance, three parts of ourselves: body, soul, spirit. Three primary colours: red, blue yellow. Three pioneers of the sun's rays: light, heat, actinism. Three kinds of life: angel, man, brute. Three animal orders: beast, bird, fish. Three natural kingdoms: animal, vegetable, mineral. Three orders of ministers: bishops, priests, deacons.

The ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor

Thank you much. I send the papers. I have hopes for this time, if there is no fresh very sad case in the way. I cannot call this case like a very bad one of great poverty though I should be exceedingly glad if it succeeded

I enclose my subscription

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Mr Moor

I enclose the £1 I fancied I had heard that Miss Le Gallais had made her start in life.

Will you tell Selina that I am sending on the magazine today

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Sir

I enclose £1.1 for the use of the poem on the Fireside. I believe Mr Ward thought he had enclosed your note, and forgot to do so, and therefore I could not but be mortified at the refusal

yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Mary

Gertrude desires me to say that the little fish arrived quite fresh and were very nice too which I can testify as she sent me two for breakfast. I am sorry you could not go to the Kitley entertainment. I dont [sic] think the tenants can be very badly off at this rate!

We had a very nice confirmation Georgie went up first of the boys. We had 30 altogether, Hursley 2 Ampfield 15. ... continue reading

My dear Miss Macmillan

If you will send me a short account of the Working Women’s College I will gladly put it in. Perhaps it will be best to do so when everything is settled. I wonder how much the women read the papers, I suppose they may be more alive to public matters than their sisters in the country, but even the men at our village reading room care much less for papers than for ... continue reading

My dear Mr Palgrave

You will think there is no end to the books I am doing, but the National Society has set me on making a historical Reader for schools interspersed - after Reader fashion with poems. May I have an extract from your verses about Charles’s flight. They are so much easier than Wordsworth’s sonnet- and may I borrow one or two more from that same book? The Montfort one, I think but I ... continue reading

Dear Miss Routledge

King Charles will come - if the Cameos and their author and the Monthly packet survive so long - in his due season - which cannot well be anticipated. But I am afraid a defence out of the Monthly Packet would not satisfy his enemies. Would it not be better to go to the fountain head? Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion is not a book hard to get at.

Or Guizot’s [[otherbook:1100]history of ... continue reading

My dear Miss [name erased]

I am so sorry, but I am going to London on Monday for the G F S affairs, and I do not come home till Saturday. If you are going out on an expedition could you not take me on your way back? I come home on the 27th, and on any day but the 29th shall be at home. At least I have promised to take my niece in ... continue reading

My dear Anna,

You did not give the name of your friend’s story, but I conclude that it is the Days of the Bruce. I had so many at the same time that it is not easy to distinguish between them. However, the Bruce is a very nice story, and though I cannot certainly promise, I think it has a good chance.

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Madam

I hardly know how to answer you, for the having had the Angel of Viareggio is first a reason for not being able to take another story in the same line. I think however that Griffith and Farran- or Cassell or Routledge- or Aunt Judy’s Magazine would be glad of a child’s story with a little foreign colouring.

I believe Signora Linda Villari is English not American, but I do not know

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam

Thank you most heartily for sending me this most laborious and excellent piece of work. I hope to keep it with my volumes and make it useful

yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Madam

I am sorry I mistook but indeed I would not think of your copying out the index for me, as I really know pretty well by long use where to find anything that I want so that I lose no time over it.

I should be very sorry to give you all the trouble.

Yours truly, C M Yonge

Dear Sir

Herewith I send copied out for me by a friend, a story for your Christmas number. I hope you will not think it either too long or too much of a child’s story.

The whole description of the carol singing past and present is from actual nature here.  I have myself heard the verses about ‘Divers’ sung  The Wolf incident likewise happened in this neighbourhood but ended in the fierce dog being killed.  ... continue reading

My dear Mary

I don’t think I would venture. I think you would probably be left in the lurch in some way or other and the name is not known enough to inspire any confidence.

I think you might find some one who would take the risk which would be much better for you. I am making my way home from Devonshire where I have been first with Mary Yonge and then with Mary Coleridge, and I ... continue reading

My dear Madam,

I wish I could give you a more agreeable answer, but I am afraid that there is no space available in the Monthly Packet for your contributions which could hardly find admittance soon enough to answer to your present wishes

I am afraid too that I have too many sketches of travels already on my hands

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Miss Kirke

I send you my autograph and a few more that I happened to have by me, but I do not know if those that are only initials with [sic] be useful to you. CRC is Christabel Rose Coleridge, author of Lady Betty, Hugh Crighton’s Romance &c. F M P is Frances Mary Peard author of a good many novels, M R is Margaret Roberts, author of Mlle Mori. Louisa Molesworth (Mrs) has ... continue reading

I hearby authorize the importation of a copy of my work Byewords printed by Baron Tauchnitz

C M Yonge

My dear Mr Warburton

I am afraid that when I think of myself as teaching Standards V and VI I feel your first sections somewhat alarming - though perhaps they are not harder than some of the extracts in the advanced Readers and my country children may be no fair criterion

I do not think that the narrative part is so difficult, but in the generalising. What makes it delightful reading to us - the allusions, ... continue reading

Messrs Harper

I am much obliged for the £10 for Love and Life received on the 14th yesterday. I am also much obliged to you for sending me your ‘paper for young people.’ I ventured to extract a short poem on the Plumes of Crecy for a Reading Book for schools making however a few alterations to bring it more into accordance with history than romance

Yours faithfully C.M. Yonge

Dear Mr Duncan

Gray is difficult with all the notes, and so is Anstice, so perhaps they had better come out. I did not mean the poetry to have been numbered as Lessons but to have stood as a sort of embellishment to be learnt or not according to need - or understanding I should rather have omitted the conversation between Arthur and Hubert than the account of the murder of the Princes in ... continue reading

Dear Madam

Lady Hunter’s letters are very amusing, and I am much obliged for them, but this kind of article does not well suit with a serial, and I must therefore return them

yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Isabel

Thank you very much for your nice cuffs. They are very warm for my wrists. I wish you a very happy Christmas.

your affectionate Godmother C M Yonge