My dear Annie- I can only be quite sure that Mr. Keble never taught me at my Confirmation anything about Fasting Communion. When he first came monthly celebrations began here at mid-day the last Sunday in the month, his idea then being that he would come over and assist. So Hursley was fortnightly mid-day first and last Sundays; Ampfield began on the third. Then it was begun at Hursley early on the intermediate Sundays, and ... continue reading

My dear Miss Acland I am sending Pompei (it does not look natural) to Christabel Coleridge at Cheyne, Torquay, and it will be more convenient for her to let you know about it, as I am not the sole dictator of Packet now, but one of a triumvirate - being really, I suppose, rather dropped behind the present world.

I fear that any how the diagrams cannot be brought in, but that the publisher must decide, and ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I send herewith the story of ‘The Strolling Players’ - from the Monthly Packet. The joint production of Miss C R Coleridge and me. It joins to the Beechcroft series. If you could tell us what the royalty would be the division would be easier

Yours truly C M Yonge

I suppose Mrs Gordon has called about the Chicago books

Dear Mr Craik Would you be so kind as to direct this letter on to Miss Frances Martin. The address on her letter was printed in some ‘old English type’ and after much consideration I decided that the word looked more like Carrara than anything else but the Post acknowledges no such place.

Thank you for your letter. I think this will suit us, but I will write on to Miss Coleridge. If you do not ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I return the receipt with many thanks.

I quite agree to your decision about the Rubies of St Lo not being attached to Grisly Grisell as the only connection between them is that Henry VI is mentioned in each.

I could add a chapter at the end to Grisly Grisell, as I was afraid to wind up all the characters lest it should be too long, but it may perhaps be better to finish where ... continue reading

Dear Sir The number of Mothers in Council must, I think have been sent by Mrs Sumner to whom I will send on one of your papers, but I think she is absent from Winchester just now, as the illness of the Bishop of Winchester throws much work on her husband. There is nothing that she and I are more anxious about than Christian education and we much desire to do all in our power to ... continue reading

My dear Lady Frederick I am afraid I cannot give you more than a week, and that the 6th must be the last possible day. I believe I am going to look over the MSS. with Mrs. Sumner and send them off on the 1st, but we can add your report at the end. I hope you are really recovered from the influenza. People are having it at Winchester, but rather slightly.

I always ... continue reading

Dear Mr Riley Have you Mr H H Gibbs’s name-? He is either at St Dunstans, Regents Park or at Aldenham Elstree I should think no one would be more earnest in the cause than he. I would also mention the publisher - A D Innes 31 Bedford Street Strand. Old Mr Alexander Macmillan I am sure would but I am not so sure of his sons though his partner Mr [[person:379]G ... continue reading

Dear Mr Moore, Miss Finlaison told me that you thought there was a possibility of getting a pension for our blind girl, Annie Norgate. It would be a most happy thing, as she is entirely dependant on her parents - and the father is a labourer not so young as he was[.] There are fifteen children, but most are now off their hands[.] I believe the disease is atrophy of the nerve. It came on when ... continue reading

Gentlemen

The Bishop of Winchester has given his permission - subject to yours - for the Readings on the Training of Children used in the Good Words for 1891 in one number, to appear in Mothers in Council (Wells Gardiner) Have I your permission so to use them

I remain Yours &c C.M. Yonge

Editor of Mothers in Council

My dear Miss Yonge, If I am not mistaken, you have issued lately several books. Do you not think that there is one that would be suitable for republication in our Series? If so, we should be glad to receive a copy, in order to judge how best to arrange our edition.

I sincerely wish that you may enjoy your usual good health and, hoping to receive your kind reply at your earliest convenience, I beg [you] ... continue reading

My dear C C We cannot find your porcupine, I think he must be shut up in a MS. Susan, the cook informed me yesterday that she is going to marry in July, rather frantic for she can only get through easy work here with Bessie’s help however I am glad to be spared the break down that there will be- and Bessie has a sister who will probably come so all will most ... continue reading

Dear Sir I send you my own autograph, together with a few more, chiefly of authors.

If in return you could send me some stamps that have been through the post, local and the like, I should be much obliged.

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Mary I came home from Salisbury yesterday afternoon, and tried to answer your note, but could not finish. I will keep your card and see if I can give the case a vote.

I am going to stay with Frances next week from Monday to Saturday

Your affectionate C M Yonge

Nestorian Tablet in China

The Museum possesses a rubbing of the inscription on this tablet, presented in 1886 by the Rev. James Stevenson, of the China Inland Mission.

In the Museum Library may also be seen:—

‘The Middle Kingdom,’ by Dr S. Wells Williams: London, 1883. A translation of the tablet is given in Vol. II., pp. 277-285, with other information.

My dear Mary I was obliged to let the Guardian go that week before I had really read it, but it must be a mistake for our dear Charles cannot be referred to in Bp Wordsworths Christian Boyhood, as it was published before his death. I know he had a copy full of marks of his own. There is a note in the book about the poet Bowles and the habits at Winchester, and ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I shall be very happy to have the Little Duke and the Dove in the Eagle’s Nest manipulated for schools. I should think there would be little to do to the Little Duke as it was written for children. I should have thought the Lances of Lynwood more suitable than the Dove as being on English history.

I know the Eversley country is full of beauty, I once drove through it. I believe there ... continue reading

My dear Bishop Your letter is very delightful to me.

Thank you very much for it, and all the pleasure it gives.

The great autograph book is a wonderful study of names. I don’t think any of us have managed to look through it all. I found you (twice) and all the rest of the party including your Mother’s welcome and familiar signature, and Reby’s who I hope is better.

I saw in the Guardian ... continue reading

Dear Canon Warburton I will send £1 for dear Bishop Harold Browne’s memorial but I am away now from cheque books. I go home on Saturday however having partly come to hear the history of the wonderful surprises of Aug 11th with which the Moberly’s had much to do.

Mrs Wordsworth is very cheerful, I hope to see her this afternoon

Yours very truly C M Yonge

It was a wonderful surprise, for the secret had been very well kept, and the day before I had a present from my former and present scholars which gave me great delight. £200 came with the autographs . . .

I do feel that Mr. Keble's blessing, ‘Prosper Thou the work of her hands upon her,’ has been most marvellously fulfilled, and this has brought me to think that the peculiar care ... continue reading

I put the scholars first because the connection began with so many as scholars. As I looked round I could see among the party two (at least) who had been my mother’s scholars when she first began her Sunday class in what is now Miss Missellbrook’s kitchen, about sixty five years ago. I can just remember sitting by her there, when you used to ... continue reading

My dearest Lizzie- We had found all your names among the 5200 in the wonderful book all bound with daisies down the back, which came as a great surprise, two Moberlys leaving it and Queen Margherita at the door, and then whisking off so that they were not recognised or followed up. However, I have had a few days with them in their home at Salisbury and heard all the ins and outs and how it ... continue reading

Dear Mrs Holbeach I am much obliged for your book which I should have acknowledged sooner but I was just going from home

I chiefly took the account of the battle of Wakefield from Sir James Ramsays’ history, and as it was a hired book I cannot see whether any bit of old spelling of his could have misled me. I am afraid it is too late to get it altered in the second edition

Yours truly C M ... continue reading

My dear Alice Jill is without a doubt Gillian, which is Juliana, and can be traced in genealogies all around the country. Of course that has the same derivation as Julius, whatever that may correctly be.

In France there were two Saints, popularly called Josse. One was Jodocus apparently Welsh, who came to Brittany, then was a hermit at Ponthieue, and Jodocus Venator appears in Doomsday, so probably Josse with diminutive Josceline was our name. There was ... continue reading

My dear Henry Mr Steward has written at last. He says two very nice girls Mildred Luckett and Kate Brown will be ready at Christmas, so I am writing to him to engage one of them, and she can talk it over with A. Diddams who can tell her all about the place.

He also gives me a list of ex pupil teachers who could keep school after the 1st of October till the mistress is ready. ... continue reading

Sir

I have no photograph at hand that I can spare but you can procure one in the February number of ‘Men and Women of the Time’ or another from Elliot and Fay Baker Street.

I remain &c

C M Yonge

My Lord Bishop In answer to your appeal I send £5 from myself /10 from a friend to Messrs Coutts. I write because I see you wish to be informed of what is paid in for your intended buildings

I remain respectfully C M Yonge

Dear Miss Yonge, I do think it was so kind of you to write to me with your own hand; it is an honour that I very highly value. By an accident I was prevented from signing your birthday roll, as I was to have done so at the Writer’s Club but was unavoidably prevented by a business appointment from being there soon enough. But no one would have signed it with greater pleasure and sincerity ... continue reading

My dear Mary I send you the Melanesian paper; would you do as the Bishop asks, and send him your address and two stamps, and so get the paper regularly sent to you? Partridge sends me a terrible number, and now they are not to be gratis to subscribers. We have told them to send in their names to Bishop Selwyn; it is getting rid of a good deal of bother.

Moreover the [[other:52]Monthly ... continue reading

Dear Mr. Awdry- I can quite believe that humble words of Mr. Keble might be misunderstood, misreported, and exaggerated, and if called on to defend every single line in the Christian Year, he might have spoken of it as a man, growing in grace, at sixty years old might speak of his utterances at thirty.

But I can distinctly declare that he never repented of the book as a whole, nor regretted its publication, and that it ... continue reading

Dear Madam I am much obliged for your offer but I am afraid you have been forestalled as we have had two papers upon Palermo and Taormina by Miss Florence Freeman, written and we could hardly go over the same ground

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Lady Sophia, I am asked to send this card, in case Lord Selborne has a vote disengaged for this poor young man. I hope the Blind are not so plentiful as idiots and incurables from whom there is no peace!

I suppose you have Dr Pusey’s life, it must be wonderfully interesting but it has not yet come in my way. It seems to fill up the complement of the other lives - I remember ... continue reading

My dear Dorothy I could not but be quite sure what the contents of your letter would be. It is a peaceful end at last, to a life that was always kept happy and innocent. The real sorrow can only be for Mary, who must miss that one thought and care so dreadfully, though after all there is great comfort in knowing that she has not to leave Frances. I only hope she ... continue reading

Dear Madam The best modern prints in point of art are Hoffman’s series, uncoloured, only the Gospels. I have seen a beautiful edition given by the Duchess of Albany to Bishop Harold Browne’s grandchildren. I think they could be had from Williams and Norgate. The only fault is a certain weakness in the Divine face. There is a fairly good series of ‘Sunday Picture books’ - each little book /6 -drawn by André edited by Rev ... continue reading