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To Christabel Rose Coleridge
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Jany 31st 1877

My dear Christabel

Here are a not very brilliant set of answers I rather doubt whether the question about the fall of Constantinople was understood I expect there will be a rush at Gridiron’s ghost question.

I shall be very glad if Fernando ends by coming to me. Miss Webers At Sixes and Sevens, a conclusion to I wonder why is very disappointing Grace is so stupidly in love ... continue reading

To Christabel Rose Coleridge
Elderfield
Aug 29 [1899]

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

To an Unknown Woman
July 17th [1884-1893]

Dear Madam

I am afraid these papers will not quite suit the Packet.

Would not Friendly Leaves be a good field for them

yours truly C M Yonge

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To the members of the Girls' Friendly Society
1894
DEAR GIRLS,- I have just been very much shocked by being told by a person, on the authority of her maid, that it is very seldom that maid-servants say any prayers in the morning, doing their devotions over-night, and sometimes thinking family prayer suffices. I know that there is often a terrible hurry in the morning, and that it is very hard for a sleepy girl to wake and dress tidily, with a mistress or upper ... continue reading
To the Editor of the Girls’ Friendly Society Associates’ Journal
June 1st, 1890.
OUR MAGAZINES Dear Madam,- To please every one is avowedly impossible, V.C.’s complaint of the stories of foreign life in Friendly Leaves only convinces me that it would be well to amalgamate our two magazines, so as to afford scope for pleasing both those who can only take an interest in homely English life and those who have imagination enough to look beyond. I find my own village girls weary of a tale of ... continue reading
To the Editor of the Girls’ Friendly Society Associates’ Journal
[March 1890]
THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN OUR MAGAZINES Dear Madam,- I rejoiced at the demonstration against the advertisements inserted on loose sheets in our Magazines, as I have a strong aversion to them. I do not entirely share your correspondents’ condemnation of obtaining money by advertising on the wrapper. It seems to me a lawful means, and the rational use of advertisements is expedient. But a line should be drawn in the choice, especially as Members may fancy that ... continue reading