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My dear Miss Smith
It is very pleasant to hear from you again. I think I shall read your paper to our mothers next Friday as part of it. We only began last winter- our clergyman’s wife to do the executive and I to read to them Alas! this spring we have had the terrible and unexpected loss of our good Vicar. He was only 42, and in full work, when struck ... 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
Dear Mrs Drew,
I was out all yesterday and could not answer your kind letter, nor thank you for the excellent paper, which I have ventured to take to Mrs Sumner, who is really the parent of the Mother’s Union. I could not use it for the Monthly Packet as I am obliged scrupulously to keep that for young girls’ reading; but there is a yet undeveloped notion of starting some kind of paper, leaflet ... 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 Mr Innes
Next year’s programme is my own Two Penniless Princesses - historical longish chapters. Miss Agnes Giberne has promised a story - and the Storm in a Teacup has to go on another half year I tried doubling the chapters, but there was not room. I think it is a mistake to sacrifice the story to the volume, as often in those I read, I see the development has been injured to get ... continue reading
Dear Mr Innes
Thanks for the cheque. I think it is a very good thing to cheapen Womankind, especially as it is getting a start through the Mothers’ Union taking it up. It will also be well to have New Ground at 2s Mr Scarth of the Waterside Mission is very anxious to have Friday’s Child published separately for the sake of the sailors. I believe Miss Crompton has been urged to write to you ... continue reading
Dear Mr Craik I much fear that you may be, like all the world, taking holiday for there is a scheme on which I much wish to consult you and Mr Macmillan, and which needs to be matured before the Church Congress in October.
I must explain that a good while ago, a society [was started] for raising the tone, religious and moral of the cottage women in a Hampshire town-village. This has spread till now ... 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 Mr Archdeacon I am venturing to ask a favour of you.
I do not know whether you have heard of the Mother’s Union, started by Mrs G Sumner (the wife of the Bishop of Guildford) at first for poor women, to rouse them to some heed to the training of their children but it gradually spread to ladies &c. and indeed quite as much counsel seems to be needed by them as by cottage women.
The need ... continue reading
Dear Lady Frederick Your letter came just as I was preparing for the demonstration of a tea for our mothers in preparation for the winter’s meetings. It is difficult to answer about the length of a report. Sometimes they get squeezed up and shortened to their very skeleton, sometimes there is room. Could you write the article so as to serve for the paper on the poorer mothers that I always try to have? The time ... continue reading
Dear Sir The number of Mothers in Council must, I think have been sent by Mrs Sumner to whom I will send on one of your papers, but I think she is absent from Winchester just now, as the illness of the Bishop of Winchester throws much work on her husband. There is nothing that she and I are more anxious about than Christian education and we much desire to do all in our power to ... continue reading
Dear Madam Q Q belonged to some relations of mine, and was much liked, and I think borrowed by my Mother. I well remember the story of the child who dealt in imperfections and was taught to persevere by having a perfect article given her whenever she completed anything. I do not think it disquieted me but was rather a stimulus but then I was not a modern child. I believe I rather confuse Q ... continue reading
My dear Canon Warburton Would it be asking too much of your kindness to ask you to glance over this paper and see whether it is an advisable one to have in Mothers in Council. I do not know whether you have heard of the Mother's Union, started by Mrs G Sumner (the wife of the Bishop of Guildford) at first for poor women, to rouse them to some heed to the training of ... continue reading
My dear C C Do you want Campbell’s Highland tales? I dont think there is anything bearing on Arthur in them he was quite Cymric not Gaelic. I sent the two Mags for young yesterday. Shall I write notices of SPCK’s books? They are not a good lot thus far as I have read, and there are two by Miss E Finnimore, the Postwoman and Uncle Isaac’s will that I am ... continue reading
Dear Mr Macmillan I have been looking for Innes’s accounts, (I send the agreement drawn up with him and Tanner in /93.) but there is no mention of the Castle builders in it nor in any of the subsequent accounts, which go to /96. I cannot find a later one, though I should have thought there would have been one in /97.
I think the book must have been out of print when he took the ... continue reading
My dear Alley Mrs Dennis and I counted up and found six babies of Mothers Meeting
Alice Bean Gray Miles Hoskins boy May One other whom I cannot remember.
Now can you tell me what you would like us to do on Christmas day-? Our parties are so many that I want you to say candidly whether it would be too much for you for us to come down, the 3 of us to midday dinner or whether we had not better ... continue reading
My 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 C C I hope the melting process has slackened and will not be heated up again next week. It really was overpowering weather, and the thunder storms seem to have been awful. They did not come very near, but cooled us. I have just been informed by a school child that a lady was at Church on Sunday who wishes to make acquaintance with me ‘She is a poetess, and has been ... continue reading
My dear Miss Merriman I am sorry to hear Mrs Sumner is laid up but I am sure it is a good thing that she should be obliged to take a little entire rest. The MSS went last week. I thought they would be easier to look over as proofs, and I wanted to have Christabel Coleridge while she is here. Mrs Matthew has asked me the last moment available for the report of the ... 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 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
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