Dear Madam

The insurances existing are as follow

£360 in premises occupied by Hicks. £1700 on Rising Sun & various cottages £300 on House occupied by Mimksn [?]

I do not appear to have any insurances on your own House or the contents Shall I get you a Policy for it & contents or only for £200 on Contents

I am yours faithy Chas Wooldridge

Miss Yonge

£200 seems to me rather a small sum

Dear Mr Wooldridge

My brother told me that he had arranged all the Insurance with you, so I never imagined that it did not include this house. I suppose it was only the freehold property. This house belongs to Magdalen College I do not know at all what it is worth, as I only pay £3 a year for it under the Copyhold. I suppose it might be about £800, the ... continue reading

Dear Mr Wooldridge You have the deed of gift executed from my brother to me of Hicks’s cottage therefore there can be no doubt that it is my property and he certainly told me that he meant to make it over to me but he never seems to have told any one here, and Hicks has been paying rent to him and Mrs Yonge ever since.

The accounts have been so mixed with repairs for cottages that ... continue reading

Dear Mr Wooldridge The house said to be occupied by E Collins is that of Charles Ray Junior Mrs Collins has been dead these 30 years.

Hall ought to be Pearson John Price rents a very small cottage adjoining his shop, I believe one of Barfoot’s sons sleeps there but Price is accountable for it.

Mrs Bishop is really the tenant of the whole house Ruddock is her lodger Does this make any difference?

County ... continue reading

Dear Madam It appears that the three houses occupied by the County Police, Mrs Jewell & Mrs Light are additional to the list I sent you, & are not insured I am sorry to trouble you again but if you will let me know the materials with which these three are built & covered I will add them to the insurance Policy at £100 each & the whole matter will then be in order

I am ... continue reading

Dear Mr Wooldridge Those three cottages form one block, they are of cement, and tiled 4 roomed brick foundations and chimneys, but cemented in frames in the walls

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Miss Giberne Uncle Peter's Fairy Tale was written by Dr William Sewell, but the preface was not of my writing. I am afraid it has been long out of print, and I have no copy, but it would be well worth reprinting.

Probably Longman was the publisher. The only way of getting it would be to ask a second hand book seller to look out for it

yours truly C M Yonge

It is one of the cleverest ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan Some years ago Mr Craik wrote to me that the sale of the Cameos of English History had so fallen off that it was not worth while to give me £100 for the copyright of the volume after it had appeared in the Monthly Packet, and I therefore discontinued thinking of the separate publication. I think the volumes ended with the Restoration

Since that, and especially lately, so many people have asked for ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I am very glad of your favourable answer about the Cameos. I shall be glad of the terms you propose - dividing the profits and you taking the risk, my object being to have them continued without expense

I am delighted to see the faithful and affectionate notice in the new number of the Magazine

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Mrs Latimer I rejoiced much to see your writing again though I burn with shame that I was in debt to you, having rather dawdled over my thanks for the African book which told me much more than I knew before about that dismal country which really seems to me to have such an effect on people’s tempers as to make them quite unlike them selves. There has enough happened to make a fresh ... continue reading

Dear Madam I have now insured all the property.

The cottages for 1600

Your house 800

,, possessions 200

Olford house 300

Mrs Bishops ,, 200

Broadway ,, 300

Hicks ,, & shop 360=

£3760

The premium will all come due at one time, at Ladyday. The amount now due after making allowance on the old policies not yet expired is £4.7.0 for which please send a cheque, this stands from now till ... continue reading

Dear Madam Your suggestions are very kind and I am much obliged for them, but with regard to proposing subjects for home lessons, these would bring ‘Mothers in Council’ into being a book read in the schoolroom, and this we decidedly wish to avoid, as there is much more liberty in writing counsels about children or young people if they are not supposed to read them.

Where are the leaflets against indulgence in sweets? I had not ... continue reading

My dear Mary I hope your headache did not forbode influenza. I have been hoping to hear that you were well, for so much seems to be about, and my dear Mary Coleridge is entirely prostrated from it, so that the doctor only says she may recover, and she was so weak and helpless before, not able to get up from her chair, or walk without help, that I scarcely dare to have much hope ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor Mr Reynolds has just been here about Annie Norgate. I shall be most thankful to you for helping her, and shall gladly join in the £10.10 subscription for her

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Mr Davies writes to

My dear Mr Moor I have a very kind woman, Mrs James Hoskins who has brought up 6 daughters and two waifs and strays very well - is a Communicant &c She has a vacancy now having lost an old aunt who lived with her and having now only a brother and sister 8 and 7, would be glad of another child.

Only the Waifs and Strays specify that other or lodgers must not be taken, meaning ... continue reading

My dear Miss Compton Would you be so kind as to answer this lady, as you understand the Reading Union much better than I do

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Mrs. Romanes- I have been reading the book before thanking you for it, and telling you how grateful I am for being allowed to see something of so beautiful a character. Especially I had never understood that religious principles and aspirations had been a thing of early days, so that it was truly ‘our Childhood's Star again arising’ after an eclipse which had not been of the spirit and love of right and ... continue reading

Dear Madam, At a Meeting of the Committee of Management of the Society of Authors held at the Offices of the Society on Wednesday the 29th. day of April, the following Resolution proposed by Sir Walter Besant, seconded by Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins and put by the Chairman was carried unanimously:—

‘That ladies be declared eligible for election to the Council of the Society.’

I have the honour to inform you that in pursuance of this Resolution, but ... continue reading

Dear Mr Holgate I will try what I can do. I did write a short memoir of Lord Seaton in the Christian Remembrancer, and it has all the dates. If I can find it, I can easily do what you wish. How soon will it be wanted?

yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Holgate This is really only an abridgement of the article in the Christian Remembrancer, except that I added the going to Winchester College chapel in 1854. I signed the paper because once or twice I found myself writing I to a personal reminiscence, but it can be altered if you wish it. I think Lord Seaton’s personal appearance is fully described in the paper. He was the most striking old man I ever saw. ... continue reading

Dear Lady Craufurd Thank you much for the wise answer to the Puzzled Mother. It is sure to be a question of different temperaments.

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam I am sorry to say ‘The Mice at Play’ is gone out of print and I do not know how to recover it.

There are some nice plays for children by Miss Jenner called Terra Cotta plays published by Innes, and another set by Mr A Heathcote called Ragged Robin published by Allen. The second among the latter is good for little children

yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Mr Wither We go on much in the same way, down one day and up another and as it is the same disease as Sir Tom Coulthard had, it will probably linger in the same manner. Today is a cheerful one, and she has had the Holy Communion, for which Henry comes to her after a late Celebration.

Tomorrow, Raby is to come out and see her while I have to be in Winchester ... continue reading

My dear Cordelia I shall be very glad to see you and Alethea on Wednesday - tomorrow afternoon if you can come out. I am sorry I can say no more, but Thursday is Mother’s Meeting day. Friday School, Saturday a Sunday School meeting at the Vicarage.

And Miss Walter is so ill that I dare not make arrangements for more than that short afternoon time

your affectionate cousin C M Yonge

Dear Sir- I must write and thank you, and ask you to thank the writer of the very kind and appreciative notice of my books.

The balance, of praise and detection of weakness (though most kindly letting the former preponderate) is just what I have wished to see. I think that what pleases me best is the full recognition that the religious and conscientious men of the stories had their actual counterparts, and though no doubt needing ... continue reading

Dear M. E. C. I feel strongly impelled to write to you both to thank you for your letter and for St. Christopher's legend. A German lady once sent me a set of photographs of frescoes of his history, where he was going through all sorts of temptations, including one by evil women.

I think I must tell you that the Daisy Chain was written just when I was fresh from the influence and guiding of ... continue reading

Dear Miss Christie, I think I must lend you my Fairy Bower. It was written, as you see, nearly sixty years ago, before the Oxford Movement had become a visible fact, by Mrs. Thomas Mozley, while her husband was vicar of Cholderton. She was Harriet Newman, and though the little book is quite in children's form, it was such as none but a Newman could write.

A little girl, Grace Leslie, goes with her widow ... continue reading

There is no Diocesan Leaflet to Winchester See

C M Yonge

My dear Emma I may write a Sunday letter to say how much it has been to me to read such a record of the good old days of Nest, and all the wonderful ‘go’ there was at Wantage. It was like the sparkling stream, and the clear, still, reflecting pool, both equally pure, but one full of ripples, broken but bright, and the other silent and meditative. And what a development! Certainly ... continue reading

Dear Miss Christie- If I could I would help you to an autograph, but I have long ago given away such of Mr. Keble's as were not too personal and precious, and I do not think I have any left except some scraps of correction on the proofs of hymns in the Child's Christian Year, such as you would hardly care for.

I well know the pressure of Guardian books, but as I am as devoted to ... continue reading