I am reading Foreigners and enjoying them.

yours very truly C.M.Yonge

My dear Miss Smith

Thank you much I will keep the story for the final selection. I think the mistake is excellently done, but I am not sure that the girls’ taking the journey on purpose to defy Mr Ritchie is not too dreadful.

I am so glad you have brought out Dulcibella again

yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

Many thanks for the payment. The knowledge that the amount for Unknown to History is coming is quite sufficient for me at present. I have been kept waiting about the Christian Names by Mr H Jenner of the British Museum who promised to set me right about the Keltic mythology but I suspect has forgotten all about it. I am desiring him to let me have it again, and let me do ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Elgie

The weather is not kind, and it is unlucky, as the last days of the week are so occupied, and on Tuesday I have to be at the GFS working committee meeting I will try to come by your way, and bring Packet and other matters.

I wanted to tell you about poor Mrs Jewell. That miserable man cannot or will not get anything to do- and she is reduced to ... continue reading

My dear Edith

Your scheme of Intercession is grand. It is rather like some of the Gilds mentioned in the SPCK History of the Diocese of York, which seem to have devoted themselves to special objects. One was in honor of the Lord's Prayer, and they even made a mystery play of it which they acted once a year.

The care they took of the poor made it a cruel thing to break them up.

your ... continue reading

Dear Bath Brick

I cannot tell how space may stand at the make up of the number but if I can I will put in your appeal

yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Miss Bussell

Many thanks for your portrait which I like very much, & will try to put in.

yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Christabel

I suppose you are beginning daily life again. When in some ways it is so hard When it feels as if there were so few in the house, and yet when people talk it gets into a whirl and one does not care about it, and oh! the letters that seem as if they would never get themselves written. I suppose you stay where you are and in that way are much ... continue reading

Messrs Harper

Gentlemen

I am much obliged for your remittance of £5 for Stray Pearls

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam

A friend of my family, who- being a neighbour, I know better personally than by her handwriting is named Anna Georgina Macaulay, and always goes by the appellation Nina. She is apt to stay a good deal away from home and I concluded that the letter I received was from her. For I suppose I am right in believing that you wrote to ask me to review a book on Scripture evidences and that ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

Many thanks for Delicia, who is very pretty, and I shall be very glad of her when I can put her in.

I envy the spirit of the people who finished their Whitsuntide decorations before the early service. I am thankful enough to get them all done on Saturday

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Lady Sophia

Pray tell Sir Arthur Gordon that I shall be very grateful for his Christmas papers.

We are preparing for a huge G F S festival at St Cross, and watching the clouds with alarm

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Madam

I kept little Frieda in case there should be room for it in the Christmas number, but as there is not I return it

yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Miss O’Meara

Pray send me the story, though I can not answer, as you know[,] either for accepting it or being able soon to make use of it till I see it.

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam

I am sorry to say your story did not come till the number had been chosen and sent to the printer. It is very pretty, but here and there a little long.

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Christabel

Here is a beginning of Mrs Lyndhurst. I am afraid she is too much in the Aunt Dora style. I think we might do without Sylvia I don’t see anything for her to do. Denys seems to me quite enough, so I send nothing about her, though if needful I could put her in afterwards. Denys may have a calf love for Rachel which may make a man of him. ... continue reading

Dear Charles,

I think I can let you have a story called Burrs, about choir boys if you like to have it. It will be published as part of a volume called Langley Adventures about Christmas but you will have the start

Yours truly C M Yonge

Sir,

Allow me to thank you for your notice of my recent volume of ‘Cameos of English history.’ But let me observe that Freitag derives the word sometimes spelt Lanzknechts as ‘Landsknechts’—free men of the country.

Miss Strickland, in her Life of Anne of Denmark, states that, though Oslo as Upslo afterwards had a Cathedral and was known as Christiana, both James’s letters, and the contemporary chroniclers describe the place as a small dreary village. I have ... continue reading

My dear Christabel

Things change a good deal.- Before John went to America, he altered his will so as to make her tolerably dependent on Bernard, hoping thus to put a stop to it all and thinking it would keep the man on his good behaviour. Since that he offered £300 for her life if before June, Mr Adams found employment so as to secure a reasonable even if small income, £400 if she ... continue reading

My dear Christabel

This is all the writing paper I have, being ‘en clôture’, with a pupil teacher, a candidate- and three senior scholars – whom I have to superintend, as Mr Brock is called off to preach at Andover. It must be rather a relief, for his son and heir squalls incessantly day and night, and Gabrielle resents being a dowager at less than 13 months. Well- I was not sure about ... continue reading