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To the Reverend William John Butler
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester
St. S[imon]. & J[ude]. [28 October] 1868

My dear Mr. Butler Thanks. I wish I felt more worthy of being an Exterior Sister, but I am thankful to be joined to what is good, though I do not think you would care to have me if you knew how I ‘shrink when hard service must be done,’ and what a spoilt child I have been ever since I grew up, very nearly useless in anything practical. But I will constantly use the prayer, ... continue reading

To Mary Anne Dyson
Wantage,
June 7. [1869]
My dear Marianne- We have had a very successful time, so successful that I have had no time for letter-writing or anything else, but I have been most enjoying myself. I did just shake hands with Dr. Pusey, in his red doctor’s gown, and moreover heard him speak about the Palestine---no, the Sinai exploration. 9th.---There, I wrote on Monday, and not a bit of time have I had to write since, but I am enjoying all things. ... continue reading
To Messrs Macmillan
[May 1877]

Miss Yonge would be obliged if Messrs Macmillan would send copies of each of her works to

Sister Elizabeth St Mary’s Home Wantage

Also one copy of the Heir of Redclyffe for herself

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To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
May 25th 1877

Dear Mr Craik

I think a letter of mine which I wrote last week to the ‘house’ must have been overlooked at least in part. I asked for a copy of the Heir of Redclyffe to be sent to myself, and a set of all my books to the Sisterhood at Wantage who want to have them to lend from their branch at Bombay

The one I asked for has never come and I have not heard ... continue reading

To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
June 1st 1877

Dear Mr Craik

Thank you for seeing to the books. The thanks for them from Wantage arrived the day before yesterday, but I could not write before as I only came home from Oxfordshire and am paying the price of my four days holiday by having more letters to answer than I can manage

yours truly C M Yonge

Did I say how charmed I was with your bright little sister in law?

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To Helena Mary Heathcote
Elderfield
Midsummer Day [21 June 1897]

My dear Ellie

Thank you. I have written to Logan to begin next Tuesday the 29th. To start at the quarter is convenient to one’s memory. I suppose he can hardly be Miss Sturges Bourne’s old Logan, is he his son?

‘From Lynn to Milford Bay’ I thought of on Tuesday when our fire was blazing built judgematically under Mr Dennis’s superintendence so as to be bright for half an hour and then to fade. Seven ... continue reading