Dear Mr Henderson ,

Pray take your own time in making the addition to the paper on Folk Lore, it will not be able to appear in the January no. and indeed I fear I may have to divide it, as 45pp is rather a large allowance out of 112 for one subject, and it will answer better to cut it in two. I am glad to hear of the further additions.

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My dear Mr Coxe,

Many, many thanks for those saints, who were just what I wanted. Only would you further add to the kindness by telling me, what 'Surius' means. I must quote the authority for that out of the way kind of thing, and I don’t sufficiently understand what this means to put it down.

Were the Maura and Timothy of the Thebaid crucified? I want to know because Kingsley has a poem called Sta ... continue reading

Dear Mr Furnivall

Thanks for the list of needs of the letter B. I had been making the like, but found the wants so constantly supplied from the overflowings of your pigeon holes that I grew lazy and desisted.

The printer at Winchester charges 7/6 per 1000 for the titles he prints for us on show paper, and we have had 4000 - which have chiefly been used by my mother, as I have generally taken mine ... continue reading

Dear Mr Furnivall, I do not think I quite know what ought to be the rule about the news and the nons. I meant to have asked you but somehow missed doing so. My own notion would have been only to put those as words - (in the case of new) which could not be explained by simple disintegration -- as for instance new-birth for regeneration, but not new born, when simply meaning lately born. But ... continue reading

Dear Mr Furnivall, Thanks for your enclosure I hope to make use of it when I get home, but just at present we are wanderers, very decided wanderers at this moment for I am writing at a little station on the Great Northern having missed our train by two minutes, so that we have the pleasure of waiting for three hours before we can get on to Peterborough and Ely. I hope to be at home ... continue reading

My dear Louisa, I am so much obliged to you for that letter, I think the giving a set of necessary tables to be learnt by heart is an excellent idea which I had not thought of. I had come to your conclusion about questions. I had been always used to them with school children, but Helen and Arthur have minds and memories awake enough not to want to be badgered with questions. The plan I ... continue reading

Dear Mr Furnivall I am afraid I cannot now read the books mentioned, as they have drifted out of my reach and I have much less time than I had in the old times when it was undertaken

Yours truly C.M. Yonge

Dear Mr Furnivall

You must have my Ns somewhere, for I put them all into their sack and sent them back to you I should think four or five years ago, I know it was just as a friend came to live with me, and I had to make room for her possessions

Yours truly C.M. Yonge

Dear Miss Yonge,

New Eng. Dictionary

Mr. Fitzedward Hall has given me a reference for Clidders to Heir of Redclyffe ch. vii., which we cannot find. Would it be possible for you to send me the quotation & with the proper reference? Literary quotations for the word are not very easily got.

We know your hand well in the earlier Dictionary material, though it has not been my fortune to see it often in later times.

Yours very truly, [[person:1074]J.A.H. ... continue reading

Dear Sir

I send the quotation with another still more to the purpose- but I should not put in two ds- as certainly Hampshire always calls the plant cli-ders. However no doubt there is authority.

I was sorry to drop the dictionary work but occupations thickened on me so that I could not keep it up

Yours truly C M Yonge