Dear Mr Macmillan, Thanks for the books which the carrier will probably bring today. I will betake myself to St John’s pupils at once, though it is rather a sudden change from the banks of the Granicus, where I left Alexander.

And there is another thing that I should like to know ie - the sum that will come to me both for the Pupils of St John and the Danvers Papers. The reason I ask is ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge I am much obliged to you for so kindly undertaking the new work I hope when you are once in it you will find it not less pleasant than the others.

I propose paying you the same for that as I will for the Worthies. The amounts which will be due to you next half year & part or the whole we can pay you any time after August 1. are:-

Pupils £200 for copyright

Cameos ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge . I have forwarded your letter to Miss Martin who has gone to Bude. I am sure there will be no difficulty in arranging matters. Her only object as I understood her was as the Series is to go over a long space there would be serious danger of one book repeating the work of another, and so there would [be] too much of one part given, and details of another that would ... continue reading

My dear Marianne If I had more time I would send you more thanks - I am going to have some of the big head done but how soon I cannot say. The alias of the other is the Bandit’s Bride. I think these are a little better first look. I am so sorry about Good Words. No one knows where it is. Dear M A. So many thanks

your most affectionate C M Yonge

Dear Mr Brett, I am told that to your other labours, you add that of acting for a Society for the promotion of Churches entirely free and unappropriated

I am very much interested in building such a Church at Eastleigh, better known as the Bishopstoke Junction station, where there is a large and fast encreasing [sic] colony of railway men, 3 miles from the parish Church (South Stoneham) and two miles from any other.

We laid the first ... continue reading

My dear Mr Ashwell I have been waiting to answer your kind letter till I had seen the new Literary Churchman, which had to travel round by Otterbourn. It was a refreshing sight after so much as one has been hearing of the cui bono apropos to the Synod. I think that in the native Devonian nature there is a strong spirit of thinking for oneself, which has led to much defiance of the Bishop, almost ... continue reading

My dear Edith It is indeed a great treat to have had a note from you again. I always feel as if my grand setting to rights when you ought to have been resting in peace was one of the drops that assisted in making your bucket overflow Friday seems to me to have been a day that in the rudest health might be felt to be like air to a fish, but how kind the ... continue reading

My dear Edith It is very good in you to have written me that kind little note, and I am very glad you have made those steps forward. May you meet some beneficial breezes at Malvern, and may you have a window with a view where you can watch the clouds. I wish I could have come to see you, but I can do very little now but watch, though we still have our drives and ... continue reading

My dear Duke Thank you for your very kind letter, which has been a great pleasure to me and will be so to think of. Though every one of our friends is so kind one’s own people that all one’s life is mixed up with are so much more to one. I think that the expectation of the Consecration must have been exciting Mamma more than we knew for weeks before, she so often fancied ... continue reading

My dear Miss Sewell I think you will like to see what the Literary Churchman says of our performance but please return it

yours sincerely C M Yonge

Do you know anyone who would like one of these photos I am selling them towards the school at Eastleigh

My dear Mrs Harrison, I begin to fear that ‘Katharine Charlotte’’s photograph could not have taken effect, but you see I send her (or you) one of her godmother - It was done by one of my cousins, and if any of the kind friends at Whitburn care to have the like, we are selling them for a shilling apiece, our mercenary spirit being roused by the desire to build a school for the new Church ... continue reading

My dear Christabel Thank you and Edith for taking the Bandits’ Bride, I hope your collections will prosper. We have £163, and want £700 if we build a masters house, £400 if we content ourselves with a school

Have you written to Miss Arnold, or shall I accepting Miss Clarke I find Grace Latham has not time, so perhaps we had better accept Miss Budd and Miss Llewellyn. Scotland has sunk away from us, so I suppose ... continue reading

My dear Mary Very likely the bill will come out tomorrow, I think Mr Hart may hold his hand now, as the school is in existence. I am not quite sure without asking Mr Layland, but I really think those photographs have raised £20. Yes, dear Anne did send 2/2 every half year for the penny club. It shews how long ago it began that the girl she first took is a ... continue reading