Dear Sir I have consulting [sic] my colleague as to whether she remembers having your daughter's little book She does not remember it, and I believe I had it, but did not think it came within scope of the Monthly Packet, and we have very little room for notices of books, so as only to be able to put in what bears on our purpose

yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam I shall be out all day tomorrow, and from 11 o’clock both Friday and Saturday, and I go away on Saturday so I hardly like to propose your taking the trouble of calling so early

yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Archdeacon I am venturing to ask a favour of you.

I do not know whether you have heard of the Mother’s Union, started by Mrs G Sumner (the wife of the Bishop of Guildford) at first for poor women, to rouse them to some heed to the training of their children but it gradually spread to ladies &c. and indeed quite as much counsel seems to be needed by them as by cottage women.

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Dear Mr Innes I send the Cameo that had better precede this one returned. I found that I had repeated Frederick the Great &c; and must alter.

Yours truly C M Yonge

Is it not time to hear of my accounts

Sir I think the books I most enjoyed in early childhood were Miss Edgeworth’s series of Early Lessons, Frank, Rosamond and Harry and Lucy.

Mrs Whately’s Fairfax family Anna Ross - Miss Strickland’s Rival Crusoes

Also very early Scott’s Poems Tales of A Grandfather The Talisman Ivanhoe Robinson Crusoe Lamb’s Mrs Leicesters School Tales from Shakespeare

This is all I can recollect of really standard books, which I read when very young

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Miss Abraham Another despairing search for a [discard?], not your papers, but the letter that went with one, and I think the more that the post must have lost the M.S. I see it was at a time when I was turned out of my usual sitting room by a new carpet, and I think the pamphlet may have gone among the accumulation that grows upon one

It is very unlucky

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik In a day or two you will receive from the National Society a story of mine called Grisly Grisell. It was written for them, but has turned out too historical for their purpose, and as a tale was wanted to be coupled with ‘The Rubies of St Lo’ I think it will serve the purpose. Mr George Macmillan knows all about the Rubies, which are in the Christmas number of the Monthly Packet.

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Dear Mr Macmillan I enclose the receipts with many thanks

yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Innes, Votes coming straight to me, and votes going first to Miss Coleridge made a certain amount of confusion - and four for Rowling Manor dated Jany 30th, came in just at the end and carried it up to 14 votes while L’Epine Noble has twelve --- So I suppose it must be the prize one, though my own judgment would not have gone that way.

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My dear C C You may as well see this remonstrance of one of the old fashioned goody souls Mrs Crocker her name seems to be. She goes on afterwards about ‘Amethyst’— and I won’t send that, for it is all misunderstanding. I wrote a defence of Cherry and Maisie saying that she was in a process of growth, and I also explained the scope of Amethyst and that you are not a dangerous person, ... continue reading

Dear Sir I should think Miss Knapp’s story would have every chance of attention if you recommended it to Mr Duncan in person, I have always found that literary work stands on its own merits and on the actual opening for it.

I feel quite sure no recommendation from me would be of half the use of your requesting Canon Duncan to let his reader judge of the M S. That is where the real decision lies, ... continue reading

Dear Mr Warburton Tentatively I put the close of the Council of Trent as the end of the Church History Period - Also I mentioned Gardiner’s School history, not that I have seen it, but I have been told that it is remarkably fair and good about Cranmer.

Did you hear this story

Inspector -What was the first effect of Mary’s accession?

Class - Several Bishops lost their sees.

Inspector - Well, what does that mean?

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Dear Madam I am much obliged for your paper, which I think excellent but I fear it is impossible to insert it before July

yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam If my coadjutors can make room your paper shall go in but there is a sad crowd of appeals

yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Frances We buried the poor old fellow with all honours. Charles wheeled down the barrow, I followed, and we put him where his predecessors are, coming on two of their coffins before we found the right place. Poor old fellow, he loved his own way, and it was well for all that he should not grown old.

My dear Helen Thank you for the £8, which I found safely on coming home from hearing the first day of the diocesan conference.

Poor old Graf, it is not every dog who is buried by the parish clerk, with me walking in solemn procession of one all down the walk behind. I am glad you were spared the catastrophe, and that mamma has Koko to divert her mind. I am afraid [[person:201]Mr. ... continue reading

Dear Madam I am sending your letter on to a lady who has an old servant in an institution such as you wish for - but I do not know how the appointment was made. I am sending your letter to her and asking her (Mrs Elgie) to write to you if she knows whether there would be a chance of admission

yours truly C M Yonge

Dearest Lizzie- Here am I writing to you out upon the lawn under the pleasant shade of the berberis. There ought to be a nightingale singing, for one lives at the corner, but he is a lazy bird, and year after year always is nearly silent after the first fortnight, though yesterday I not only heard but saw his fellow singing with all his might in a young oak, making his tail and wings quiver.

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Dear Mr Palgrave Thank you much for the little book—I am very glad of the testimony to its popularity.

I suppose your change was in doubt whether the Bothwell affair was Anteros, as no lover at all; and that on that subject you have changed your mind. I think I incline to the belief that the Casket letters were old ones to Darnley garbled for Elizabeth’s benefit. Have you seen the fragment at Hatfield?

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Mrs Gordon What a work you have been doing at York! Here in our county division, we had no opposition to an old Conservative member, so we were saved all the battle and heartburning; Winchester elected its Conservative, and Southampton our native squire - It is a most agitating election, and oh! How dreadful it would be to have a triennial parliament.

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This life is not the Temple but the Gate Where men secure of entrance watch and wait

Aubrey de Vere

Dear Mrs Trebeck I am afraid this is too late but I cannot help sending it

yours sincerely C M Yonge

They are the end of his sonnet in answer to ‘A life worth living[‘]

My dear Hannah Thank you for your kind note. It will be a great pleasure to have Alethea here but she cannot come till October, as the curacy cannot be left and the house has to be put in order. I suppose they will hardly be come by the time you come home. It is too dusty today for almost anything.

Yours affectionately C M Yonge

My dear Arthur Aimée Leroy is at Ilfracombe at this moment. I don’t know how soon she comes home, but a letter would find her in a few days. The person who could do the thing best of all is Miss Roberts, author of Mademoiselle Mori but she is abroad and last time I heard of her, she was in Corsica. I think I could do the thing for you, a good deal by ... continue reading

My dear Arthur Humbert was the name of the Dolphin. I did not know I had put it ambiguously. There was a Dauphin in Auvergne and in Montpensier, till the last turned into a Duke. They did bear dolphins, but I don’t think anyone knows whether the arms came from the dolphin or the dolphin from the title. I will either put in the name Humbert or join Count-dauphin with a hyphen ... continue reading

Dear Madam, Mrs Sharpe, whom I am in correspondence with respecting the temporary care of our hamlet infant school from Michaelmas to Christmas refers to you her character and capabilities -

As it is only for three months with between 80 and 90 children, Infants and First Standard, her powers are of less importance, but I should be glad to know what you think of her

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Miss Higginbotham I think you will find the beginning of the stories in the Castle builders & Countess Kate, which are in the hands of Innes, 31 Bedford Street Covent Garden.

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Lady Frederick Your letter came just as I was preparing for the demonstration of a tea for our mothers in preparation for the winter’s meetings. It is difficult to answer about the length of a report. Sometimes they get squeezed up and shortened to their very skeleton, sometimes there is room. Could you write the article so as to serve for the paper on the poorer mothers that I always try to have? The time ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes I think as you propose Langley Adventures ‘Langley School’ Royalty at the rate of 2/3 of a 1d in the shilling on the published price. ‘Langley Adventures’ Royalty at the rate of ¾d in the shilling on the published price beyond the first 2000 sold which are free of royalty, in the case of Langley Adventures only: twelve copies counting as twelve in all cases.’ might be transferred to you, and the ... continue reading

Dear Mr Adams I think such papers as you kindly propose would be very valuable but my colleague, Miss Christabel Coleridge must be consulted, and likewise the publisher Mr Arthur D Innes, 31 Bedford St Strand

I think as you are in London it might simplify matters if you would call on him, as he would tell you about length of papers and terms and I believe we would find the papers very interesting

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Dear Mr Innes Thank you for your kind letter, I suppose there will always be rubs of opinion when three people representing different generations of thought work together if in general principle they accord; and I know I am apt to despise popularity more than perhaps is fair in fellow workers to whom it is more important

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