My dear Mr Warburton Alas! I wish I could be in two places at once, for I do not at all want to miss the Committee which is enjoyable and instructive- But I have been engaged for weeks past to a GFS meeting, and I can’t get off for I have a note from Mrs Elgee this morning that her speaker one at least fails, & I must do it. Whereby it is all the ... continue reading

Will this answer the purpose?

C. M. Yonge

My dear Julian The photographer finds our lights so very inconvenient that I am going to bring him down to House, & get the benefit of your dark chamber. I will come after luncheon - in about 3/4 of an hour

C M Yonge

Dear Madam It is too late for our agenda. I will mention the subject at the Working Committee but I think it is a doubtful one and that legislation might cut two ways

yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Miss Beale I can’t resist telling you, apropos to your article about Mrs Dorothy Kilner’s books, that somehow they did gain a curious hold of children’s minds. In ‘Lecture graduées a translation of Tommy Piper appears, with Mr Makegood as Monsieur Réforme! A reproduction of the old book (how well the ‘cuts’ are given) was mine some 60 years ago. My young nephews and nieces constantly were borrowing it when the ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge Thanks for your interesting letter, it will give pleasure to Mrs. Emery, Miss Kilner's great-niece.

That is very curious about the Lectures. It is strange that we found these books so fascinating when we were children; is it because the story of the development of the soul is the most interesting thing even to little children, and these books, spite of all their erroneous methods, dealt with nothing else? Besides, we ... continue reading

Dear Miss Beale Indeed your letter was all right, I am sorry you had an alarm about it. I believe one failure in these days in training is that the very late dinners prevent the long family evenings of reading, work and music sometimes dull, but often educational. As to books, minute studies of character either weary children or make them self conscious. What their elders like they care little for. ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes Thank you much for what was useless trouble. I thought Stanford was sure to have had such maps reasonably cheap for travellers. There is a good little geological map of England in Letts’s atlas, but the book is very badly bound, and that one map in my copy has some how been lost.

I think there are small editions of Keith Johnstone- but his publisher is Blackwood, I suppose he has an office ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes I shall be glad to have fresh editions of Beginnings of Christian History and of the Pigeon Pie.

My engineering nephew has routed up an atlas of Keith Johnstone of manageable size. If that does not prove sufficient I shall try Cassell

Yours truly C M Yonge

One can only thank God for the beautiful, holy vision that your ‘sweet mamma’ has been to me all these fifty years or so – the looking-up friendship which was so precious. There has been no presence for a long time more sweet and blessed to me; and that last summer I specially enjoyed, when it had come to be almost the bien-être of relationship, and all redolent of old times. . ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes I have the Unfashionable Concert somewhere it is one of those things that if they cannot be put in at once, get set aside for fresher papers of the charity kind I can’t make any promises about putting it in so I think I had better return it. I hoped to have found it this evening , but a visitor, and twilight prevented me. I have grown more wary at last about ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes, I hope there are still some Castle builders left for a lady in Portugal wrote a few days ago to ask me if it was still to be had, and I answered that it was. I suppose the Modern Landmarks are put out by later books.

I am concerned about a long series of scientific papers on the physical structure of the Earth. I accepted them some time ago from Miss Gaye and spoke ... continue reading

My dear Anna I am sorry to say I cannot anyhow come on the 16th for it is our School examination day, and it will not be over in time. What shall we do without our Chairman who was a tower of strength on the right side

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Hannah Helen has returned from her wanderings, of course having caught cold by the way, but it is just going off. Could you come over to tea, either on Saturday, Monday or Tuesday - and see her. Frances and the little boys start on the 21st of April

Yours affectionately, C M Yonge

My dear Mrs Latimer Thank you very much for the adventure in the Night Express which is just the thing; either as Christmas number or short story, I am not quite sure which, any way I am very glad of it. We are more open to short articles now so I should like to have your Civil engineer again. I was sorry to part with it though I had never used it

I return that very ... continue reading

My dear Mrs England A basket of what we can get shall be left at your door about two o’clock on Wednesday.

I have told the children, but we do not live in the same profusion as heretofore Squires have grown so much more particular about trespassing than they used to be in the good old Heathcote days that we are cut off from many of our best copses!

yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Mr Innes I am very sorry to see Miss Cheape’s proof did not reach her. You told me about a month ago that she had sent a fresh address but as I had sent her the proof of Mr Valentine full a month before - (or rather I knew it had been sent) I did not suppose it applied People never forward proofs, they always take them for advertisements.

By the by today’s ... continue reading

Dear Madam I have put it in Mrs Matthew’s hands, whether to put in the article, or an apology.

The number of Mothers in Council being all arranged, it is very inconvenient, as some contributor must be put off

yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Innes, I have disposed of Mr Hutchinson’s Stars except for this one chapter. I found when I wrote to him that he had not meant to contribute a regular course but miscellaneous papers now and then. I want however to get the Engineering recollections in America into this volume. They are 7 but short, very entertaining and one may be doubled. The story is short too. I have not got Miss Sewell yet, but ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes, Miss Gaye wants to have her M S back that she may know what to do with it.

I believe you know Miss Cheape’s address, if she is not at St Andrews, would you get a proof of Christian sent to her - I sent up two chapters, but I think I can only put one in.

Miss Tanner. I think you had better send to the care of

Mrs Sidney Lear the Close Salisbury

I ... continue reading

My dear Miss Bowles Miss Bourne tells me to write and ask you about a cook who is leaving your mother’s and whom she says you think well of. Perhaps you would tell her about this place. If she is a thoroughly nice person, honest, trustworthy and a Communicant also if she is kindly and good tempered and has a head.

My household consists of only myself, and my invalid friend Miss Walter, who is ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I have just finished a story called ‘Two Penniless Princesses’ about the two daughters of James I of Scotland who went to visit their sister, the wife of the future Louis XI, and found her just dead. It is in 12 chapters, each taking from 12 to 16 pp of the Monthly Packet, where half has appeared. It is to be finished there in December. Is it well to take any steps ... continue reading

Sir, I was born on the 11th of August 1823, in this village, and have lived here all my life being wholly educated by my parents at home.

My father belonged to an old Devonshire family, and was an officer in the 52d regiment.

I have written and published ever since about 1849 or 1850

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik I much fear that you may be, like all the world, taking holiday for there is a scheme on which I much wish to consult you and Mr Macmillan, and which needs to be matured before the Church Congress in October.

I must explain that a good while ago, a society [was started] for raising the tone, religious and moral of the cottage women in a Hampshire town-village. This has spread till now ... continue reading

Dear Sir I suppose you must have a privately marked copy of the Child’s Christian Year, since it never was published with authors’ names. My mother’s maiden name was Frances Mary Bargus, born Jan 13th 1795 - married to William Crawley Yonge of the 52d regiment died Sept 28th 1868

I think all I care to have published about myself is already in biographical notices

I remain &c C M Yonge

Dear Mrs Lange I send you what the Author writes about Mental Purity and will tell the publisher what you say; though I am doubtful whether its publication as a leaflet can be managed

yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Florence I am very glad to hear of you again, and I hope the touch of frost will not be felt at Bournemouth; it has spared all our flowers as yet. I waited to write because Christabel was coming to make up our plans for the new volume. We will try to put in 'Purification' poem for February, but I am afraid poems do not get much payment. I wish ... continue reading

I could not answer before as I was at the G F S annual Conference - more over my colleague took the M S away to read. She approves of it much, and we hope to put it in among the short stories, when we can. The same may be said of Emma’s poem, ... continue reading