Many, many thanks for the beautiful little miniature of a holy life. I do think the last half-century must have been a period of saints, when we think of the many blessed ones we have known. Nothing so causes me to realise the ten thousand times ten thousand in the Revelation than the ‘Bollandist Lives of Saints’ in about 150 years, having got no further than C, and those only ... continue reading

Sir

I should be very glad of the establishment of the copy right system with America but I should like to have more information before joining the Company of Authors.

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Miss Atkinson,

I sent on your Robin and I think we are grateful for it

yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Miss Bennett

The work on the retable is all right, but as the stuff is of the same length as the superfrontal it also wants taking in at the corners. Of course we could do this at home and I am not sure that I should have sent it, but I desired the Altar cloth to be packed and both sent together. So perhaps it would be best to take it in a little, ... continue reading

Dear Mr Wynyard

I enclose my subscription for Chandler’s Ford. I am glad it is safely set on foot

yours very truly C M Yonge

Dearest Jay

If you would write to me once a fortnight how delightful it would be for we do let each other drop fearfully, and as long as my poor Gertrude is in her present state I can not go from home unles I can leave Mary Woollcombe here. She is here now, finishing a fortnights stay, during which I have been able to get a few days with the Moberlys. Near as they ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I am terribly bound up with present matters of necessity but I will hunt up Delicia and see what I can do with her, though I know May, June & July are pretty full But I will put her in type, and then she will be sure of getting in soon (after Magazine calculation of soon)

yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Miss Gordon Cumming

I had an intimation from the publisher that he is going to change printers, and so that I must finish up all there is in type before August. This is keeping you, as well as many other papers back, but I hope to be able to get them in then.

Something unexpected always happens when one hopes one has comfortable space Miss Sewell’s letters went on two numbers more than I ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I am afraid I cannot tell you which is my favorite tale- they were written with such different feelings and associations

yours truly C M Yonge

How little I thought when I met dear Joanna Patteson in your drawing-room that it was the last time I should see her! Fanny Patteson had come back, and is sure Joan knew and was thinking for others to the last. . . . I hope you are profiting by the splendid summer weather. I never knew a year of sweeter smells: the sheets of wild honeysuckle ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I am afraid these papers will not quite suit the Packet.

Would not Friendly Leaves be a good field for them

yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

I am afraid I am guilty about the Birthday book My consent was asked two or three years ago, and I suppose it was ignorance for it never struck me that such little scraps could be a copy right question, and it did not occur to me that I ought to refer to you. In fact I thought it a nonsensical project that would fall to pieces of itself, and as I had ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I am very sorry not to have answered your letter sooner, I put it aside to enquire about Mrs White, and in the hurry of Christmas preparations it was forgotten. She is not strictly an inhabitant of this parish, but of Compton- where I believe her husband is man to Mr Baldwin the maltster. I had heard that she took in washing, and I believe that she is respectable but I know ... continue reading