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My dear Miss Bramston,
I have an urgent appeal sent through the Freemans of Somerleaze for warm garments for the poor refugee Servians
Miss Johnstone, 10 Ovington Gardens SW is going out again to Herzegovina on that day, and begs for money, serge blankets or any thing warm for the poor creatures
Perhaps you saw the account in the Cornhill, 3 months ago They will not be able to go on coming to that sort of school unless ... continue reading
My dear Augusta
It is a long time since I heard of you and almost as long since I heard of Kate, and I am anxious to know how she got on this summer I hope Ernest is quite well after his chicken pox. I went about looking for him at Domum till I met Mrs Morshead and she told me he was gone home. The only Saints day that they did ... continue reading
My dear Miss [name erased]
I am so sorry, but I am going to London on Monday for the G F S affairs, and I do not come home till Saturday. If you are going out on an expedition could you not take me on your way back? I come home on the 27th, and on any day but the 29th shall be at home. At least I have promised to take my niece in ... continue reading
My dear Madam
I well remember the apprentice system in Devonshire (where to this day they call farm boys apprentices though I don’t believe they are so) I believe it was a good thing that the system was done away with for the farmers were apt to be very harsh with them. My grandfather, as a magistrate had continually to hear complaints about their being flogged. The people who might have done them good seldom had ... continue reading
My dear Mrs Elgie
The weather is not kind, and it is unlucky, as the last days of the week are so occupied, and on Tuesday I have to be at the GFS working committee meeting I will try to come by your way, and bring Packet and other matters.
I wanted to tell you about poor Mrs Jewell. That miserable man cannot or will not get anything to do- and she is reduced to ... continue reading
My dear Lady Sophia
Pray tell Sir Arthur Gordon that I shall be very grateful for his Christmas papers.
We are preparing for a huge G F S festival at St Cross, and watching the clouds with alarm
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Christabel
This is all the writing paper I have, being ‘en clôture’, with a pupil teacher, a candidate- and three senior scholars – whom I have to superintend, as Mr Brock is called off to preach at Andover. It must be rather a relief, for his son and heir squalls incessantly day and night, and Gabrielle resents being a dowager at less than 13 months. Well- I was not sure about ... continue reading
My dear Florence
As next Tuesday is a Saint's day, perhaps I had better say that the boy would not find me at home, as the first Tuesday in every month there is a meeting of the High School committee. On all Thursday afternoons till Easter I have to be at the mother's meeting, and indeed we are so eaten up with preparing for the examinations that I can answer for no afternoons in February ... continue reading
My dear Christabel
I do not know what advice to give but that I wish they would take GFS, though I know I would not the authorities are so troublesome. How stupid about the Jubilee address sacrificing the reality of the Signature to the tidiness of the sheets. I think as someone said that the GFS is like the Church in flourishing in spite of the drawbacks of its supporters!
As to your questions, ... continue reading
My dear Christabel
Many thanks. It will be the printers own fault if we are late for they are to keep holiday till Tuesday. I think you are right as to GFS chiefly because there is a continual conjugating of the verb to worry, active & passive I wish the Central would learn not Men’s Societies dont They have made all clergymen hate the concern! I wish I could ... continue reading
My dear Christabel
Don’t answer till you have time, and the fascinations of the twins are withdrawn, but I am moved to tell you first that Katie Lloyd has sent me a most exquisite oil picture of Fotheringay Church with such a look of sunshine, such reflections in the water, such trees. I am sure she has improved much – and she has put it in a frame that I fear must have cost her ... continue reading
My dear Mrs Drew
No book ever was quite equal to the Conversations with Cousin Rachel, which I believe Masters still publishes. It may here and there seem rather antiquated, but the solid part is of all times. Then there is a little book called ‘Girls’ - published by Skeffington, and one by Lady Barker, published by Hatchard in connection with G F Sfr. I cannot recollect its name, but Hatchard’s list gives it.
As to fiction, ... continue reading
My dear Lady Frederick-
Gillian was very naughty, rather I think from want of knowledge of the world than anything else, besides spirit of opposition. I am glad you like Jane, somehow she has erected herself to me into the heroine. I find myself living in sympathy with my old people rather than the young. But I really do shrink from bringing Dr. May and Ethel on the stage again, he must be grown so old. ... continue reading
Dear Madam
I do not think your duties are very definite.
1st to induce a bookseller within easy reach of your Branch to keep a depôt of GFS literature
2d To manage the Book slate at festivals
3d to know the numbers of GFS magazines taken in the Branch
4th to know whether the girls have access to lending libraries and if books are borrowed from the Diocesan Library to manage the correspondence
5th To fill up the report ... continue reading
I could not answer before as I was at the G F S annual Conference - more over my colleague took the M S away to read. She approves of it much, and we hope to put it in among the short stories, when we can. The same may be said of Emma’s poem, ... continue reading
Dear Madam It is too late for our agenda. I will mention the subject at the Working Committee but I think it is a doubtful one and that legislation might cut two ways
yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingDearest Lizzie- Here am I writing to you out upon the lawn under the pleasant shade of the berberis. There ought to be a nightingale singing, for one lives at the corner, but he is a lazy bird, and year after year always is nearly silent after the first fortnight, though yesterday I not only heard but saw his fellow singing with all his might in a young oak, making his tail and wings quiver.
I had ... continue reading
My dear Miss Acland I am sending Pompei (it does not look natural) to Christabel Coleridge at Cheyne, Torquay, and it will be more convenient for her to let you know about it, as I am not the sole dictator of Packet now, but one of a triumvirate - being really, I suppose, rather dropped behind the present world.
I fear that any how the diagrams cannot be brought in, but that the publisher must decide, and ... 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
My dear Mary How nice to have two letters from you together! You are alone, as I am for a fortnight as Helen comes on the 30th, and Lottie has just left me, but I am not sorry for a little quiet time. Thank you for letting me see those letters, I think almost Grandmamma’s last words to Dr Harris were ‘Don’t let Fanny be in a scene not fit for her,’ and we ... continue reading
My dear Mary I am glad you have been keeping the wedding day with Charlotte. I am afraid that the hotel must spoil sitting out of doors except in front of the house. I am writing now in the garden while Blanche Webber, who is here to recover from the remains of the influenza is lying down in her own room. She had it at Easter and does not quite get over the remains, ... continue reading
My dear C C It was for Monthly Packet articles that I extracted the payment, and the stock of the books that were my personal property were handed over to Macmillan. This offer from the family must be for the actual sales that had taken place since there was an account; but these agents did not try to explain it, so I can only ‘take the goods the gods provide me’ if they do for ... continue reading
Dear Lady Brandreth, I hope in time to accomplish meeting you and conferring about the G F S affairs!
I have never had the specimen packet, not having been the Branch associate for Literature. I think Miss Stanford has it for Winchester Country and Miss Carey for the City
Yours sincerely C.M. Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Mary I have just heard from Jane Moore. She is at Ramsgate, where her husband has been sent to get over an attack of bronchitis from 7 hours work at Aldershot! She and I have had a great blow in the sudden loss of Lady Susan Blunt. You know she was the General’s cousin, and the daughter of my mother’s old friend, Lady Nelson We always so enjoyed meeting ... continue reading
My dear Mary That letter came to me with a request that I would forward it to Mr Arthur Yonge whom the writer had met 7 years before in New Zealand, by which I concluded he did not mean Arthur in America and I thought it would just meet him with you, but probably it will find him in time. Poor Annie Woollcombe, the deaths from illness seem sadder than those in battle, and yet ... continue reading
My dear C C I am glad of the 26th but I thought GFS stuck to the 24th & 29th. However it is all the better for me and the roses will be in their glory. The snow balls and may will be gone but no doubt you have them where you are. I wonder if Fanny Patteson will turn up any time. I throught she had, when Edith announced Miss ... continue reading
My dear C C Does not your paper want something more of practical application, not that I quite see how it is to be done. Maud and Lily are capitally described, but the upshot is that a nice girl does not like to be mixed up with them- also that mothers should be exhorted to keep girls nice – and mistresses to take care whom they take.
Would be possible to bring it more to a ... continue reading
My dear Mrs Buston
We shall be very glad to see you and Miss Dampier at 3 o’clock on Wednesday - I shall have to leave you at 4, as it is the day of the G F S quarterly meeting, when the girls pay in their money - and I read to them
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Bishop
I find the apples are come but the arrival was not notified to me - and I had been blaming the rail way! Please tell me what there is to pay for them as I do not think my account came with them I suppose 8/ altogether but I am not sure
A busy week is coming between Diocesan Conference and G F S. How surpassingly lovely are the Autumn tints I gathered 86 ... continue reading
the Grange - Mrs Shipley called while I was out, decorating yesterday perhaps with a view to G F S
Yours affectionately C M Yonge
... continue readingDear Mrs Swinton
Thank you for your kind card. I hope to appear in the afternoon, but it can hardly be till late as unluckily there is a G F S working committee at 1.30 on the 3d of July but I must get away from it as soon as I can
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Mary
Thank you, this is charming! I do not know that the fun and the presents need necessarily be connected—could we not have one of those puppet shews where the girls are the puppets? Or could we have your own old Blue Beard, which would be the best fun of all—if it does not take up too much time and space and people. What do you think?
And for our own delectation, we would have ... continue reading
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
My dear Mr Warburton Alas! I wish I could be in two places at once, for I do not at all want to miss the Committee which is enjoyable and instructive- But I have been engaged for weeks past to a GFS meeting, and I can’t get off for I have a note from Mrs Elgee this morning that her speaker one at least fails, & I must do it. Whereby it is all the ... continue reading