Dear Mr Bullock, I did not think much could be done with his times in France, as they generally did not proceed from St Denys’ foundation but I took a different line, which I hope may suit you. Only can you fill in the name of the seventh Champion of Christendom[.] I think he was of Portugal, but I cannot remember, I wish he was St Maurice of Germany, but I fear he was not

Yours truly C ... continue reading

Dear Mr Bullock, As I could not think of anything specially about the ancient Breton Church, I looked at Sauvestre’s Derniers Bretons, and I thought the endurance of St Machutus’ teaching deserved to come in.

Sauvestre gives various French prose translations of the popular hymns. Those on Paradise and one Christmas ‘Noël’ are very beautiful, but there was only space for the rag picker

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Bullock, I send three more translations, but I doubt about using the ‘Noël’

It is a little Calvinistic (strangely enough) and sounds irreverent though not so in the shepherds themselves. Up to Sauvestre’s time - 40 or 30 years ago these really were universally sung, and were popular poems made by poor men- I should think Paradise might come in on All Souls’ day

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr.Maddison How shall I thank you enough for writing to me much that I might never have known, though Miss Barnett promises to send me some of the letters she has had. Poor thing, the tower of strength is gone, and she has lived in and for those two so long that I cannot think that her frail body will stand such a shock. I am glad you told me that she does ... continue reading

Dear Mr Bullock, I will try to write Abp Sancroft, and Bp Mackenzie but have you thought of asking Miss Awdry, Notton, Chippenham. She is the author of ‘An Elder Sister’ and would do Anne Mackenzie’s life excellently. She could also do well Henrietta Robertson, a grand missionary worker.

And have you thought of Mrs Macdougal who sacrificed so much-? Miss Awdry could well do all these. She edited the Gospel Missionary till lately when it ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Ritchie I am impelled to write to you by your Introduction to Miss Mitford’s Our Village which delights me much. I too have driven through Three Mile Cross and have been much disappointed except that I saw the blessing of wearing rose coloured spectacles I remember it used to be said that Miss Mitford complimented all the neighbouring young ladies but when I read her life I saw that her admiration was ... continue reading

Dear Mr Bullock, Here I send Archbishop Sancroft, hoping he is the right length. Miss Strickland’s Seven Bishops made it rapid work.

Have you thought of Frampton - a non juror, though not in time to be added to the 7. I have a life of him and could write it. I have just had your letter. I do not much incline to Sir R Fanshaw. I had his wife’s book long ago, and lost ... continue reading

Dear Mr Bullock, I send Bp Mackenzie whom I had to do in haste because my book was wanted -

I think I had better take Carnarvon for the leading Cavalier for I can more easily get at his history at present than any other The Memoir of the Verneys I had once from Mudie but I should have long to wait for it again and it is an expensive book, so I will only mention him ... continue reading

Dear Mrs Egerton Unluckily the matter of the Grants could not come on till the last and I never found you again. I am sorry to say that the Council refused to forward your application as it would be a dangerous precedent to other Branches who might ask for the same grant. I have written to Mrs Chester and she may send it to you. I am sorry I had to run away from you, but ... continue reading

Dear Mr Bullock, I send you Bishop Frampton with your list, and many thanks for it, I hope you have the life of Fletcher of Madeley that shews how much braver he was than two soldier brothers. Your Mother may be interested to hear that Heartsease was the last book Lord Raglan read.

Sir Eustace Stewart who lent it to him told me

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Bullock, I would have offered to write Fletcher’s Life, but I have hunted all over the house twice over and cannot find the book I once had, but no doubt you can get it from a library

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Bullock, I send Fletcher and Lady Falkland with your copy of Fletcher for which I am much obliged. I am afraid his life has turned out much too long as hers is too short. If it has to be cut down the bit about his noble birth could best be spared. His last Communion is wonderfully beautiful

Yours truly C M Yonge

I am returning the copy to Mr Churton

My dear Lady Mary I am afraid I never heard of the name of Filian, unless it comes from the Scottish Saint Filam, St Fillan’s cave, Glenfillan. But that was a man, a Fifeshire abbot to whose good will the Scots attributed their victory at Bannockburn. At least so says Alban Butler and Baring Gould, and the latter gives as date 7th century, I cannot get nearer. Somehow I believe there was no capital F in ... continue reading

Dear Mr Bullock, If you can wait a little while for St Maurice I will send him to you but I am very busy just now, and could not turn my mind to it immediately. I have Baring Gould and Alban Butler both also Fleury

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik I cannot at all tell whether this is the right length, as the only ‘Golden Treasuries’ I have seen are my own and I do not think they have introductions.

I can easily add biographical details if you wish it to be longer - but I like to write to my own sense of the needs of the subject and to add or diminish afterwards as required.

Do you know whether Mrs Ritchie is abroad. ... continue reading

Dear Mrs Gordon My books may very well follow the rest of the collection to Newnham, I never expected their return and they will be very well there. I wonder if you will succeed in getting them for the future exhibition!

I am glad you have found such suitable work. What a profusion of periodicals of all sizes there are, though it shocked me a little that no woman’s paper can succeed without the fashions

Yours truly C M ... continue reading

Dear Mr Bullock, I waited to answer till I saw whether an offer of a story I had made was accepted in which case I should have had no time, but I find I have and can manage the two lives[.] I have Hook’s Archbishops, and will make use of your materials gladly. I once had Frances Havergal but gave her away so I shall be glad of the loan

I think Charles Simeon ought to ... continue reading

My dear Mary This is Mr. C.'s paper; please return it as I want to keep the Hursley papers. I did not see the original articles, nor have I read the horrid book, but the day that the Church Times had its article came one of A.'s letters admiring it. I wrote strongly to her on the danger of being fascinated with such books, and the horrid irreverence, and I also wrote to the ... continue reading

Dear Mrs Ritchie How kind in you to write me such a pleasant letter. I like to know that the companions of my life have been beloved by other people. I had actually begun for my own pleasure another link in the Daisy Chain for the Monthly Packet but it was decided that it would weary the public.

I am much enjoying your recollections. I hope you have a great many more still to come.

I was sorry ... continue reading

Dear Mr Bullock, I send you Charles Simeon You see he was entirely taught by the Church and nothing else, so far as his first beginnings of religion were concerned. He disowned being a Calvinist; but I think his mistake was in studying Huguenot sermons. I do not know if you will put the Simeonite preferments into a note. I thought some explanation was needful I daresay you may know one or other of his three ... continue reading

Will you allow one who is almost a stranger to you personally, to express my deep sympathy and sorrow when I saw the notice in the paper of the awful blow that has fallen on you? I know from Annie Moberly of your great kindness on my birthday last year, and that leads me to hope that you will not feel a few words from an old woman an intrusion; though pray do ... continue reading

My dear Arthur Do you think that Cassell would like for one of his Magazines a sort of abridgement of Madame Cornélis de Witt’s diary of the Franco German siege of Paris, called Six mois de la Guerre It is a little book and my account of it would only take 8 or 10 pp of the Monthly Packet size It is nearly finished and will be ready to send away in a ... continue reading

Dear Mr Bullock, Here is Salisbury. I am sorry I could find no more to say about it, the cathedral having been all built at once, and the Bishops not having been memorable except the last four. Burnet I could not put in! The sunshine on the Altar on the 15th of August is quite true. I have seen it twice

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Mrs Holbeach Thank you very much for your sweet story. It is a very happy recollection.

How good of you to send it in the midst of your own care and sorrow

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Mr Bullock, St Paul’s Cathedral has outrun St Erkenwold, though the materials you sent me did not include his reconciling SS Theodore and Wilfred as may be found in their lives and which was a grand work. I have not the lists of Bishops of London but I have Nicolls Statistical Review which gives them. Also Loftie’s London

I do not know about Mr Grimshaw Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik I see that your ‘house’ appears in the list of subscribers to the Surgical Aid Society. Do you think one or more letters could be spared to me? A little child was sent from the Society for protecting Waifs and Strays with a lame foot paralysed after measles- to be boarded at a cottage here. She is now in the Orthopaedic hospital, but she requires a boot and irons, and the expense is ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I shall be very glad that the Rubies of St Lo should be published as you propose, I receiving /4 per copy sold. Thanks for the two school Lances of Lynwood. I am only just come home from Devon or I should have written sooner

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam I send two of the books you wish for. The Cross Roads is I find being read to a class of G F S girls, but will be finished by the time you have done with these two. John Brent is by S Baring Gould, one of the penny SPCK series. I know I have it and have read it aloud, but I cannot lay my hand on it this moment.

I have only one ... continue reading

Dear Mr Bullock, The word in the French version is vertu. I have made it power, as that must be the sense

Yours truly C M Yonge

after a bad passage. Frances and Helen both spend Christmas at the Vicarage, but one must go back when Maurice’s short holiday is over –

Henry’s old uncle, a Canon of Chichester has left him £1000

My dear Mrs Blackburn It was very pleasant to see your writing again after so many years! Our intercourse used to be in the early ages, though I have kept up hearing of you from Lady Blachford, whom I saw last summer settle again at Cornwood to the great joy of the inhabitants.

I am glad you are to bring out so many of your works. I hope that congregation of terns that I once saw in ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I shall be very happy to receive £50 for the American copyright of ‘A Long Vacation’

Yours truly C M Yonge