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To Anne Sturges Bourne
Otterbourne, Winchester.
May 21st 1860

My dear Miss Bourne,

Taking out your letter to answer I see that you return to Pickhurst on Monday, so I must direct there. I wish I had written on Saturday. Is it that Mrs Laidlaw that you have lost - there was something in her countenance and manner that I liked very much, and how are the little children disposed of? We shall be very glad if you can give us a day after your ... continue reading

To Frances Mary Peard
1862

Dear Madam,

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Yours much obliged,

C. M. Yonge

P.S., I daresay you may know my name as a Devonshire one, I am a niece of Mr. Yonge of Puslinch.

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To Frances Mary Peard
Otterbourne, Winchester.
July 12th 1862

My dear Miss Peard,

You are a most comfortable correspondent and contributor, and it will be very pleasant to us to have the print of St. Sebastian which your friend has so kindly procured for us.

We shall be wandering for two or three months to come but it will be sure to reach me safely if sent either direct here, or to the care of Messrs Mozley 6 Paternoster Row. Which perhaps will be the best ... continue reading

To Frances Mary Peard
[1862]

Many thanks for this beautiful paper which will beautifully finish off the year .... Your references are all so full and so clear that they make the papers all the more useful, and I always find myself glad when I have one to read with my class which is after all the best test.

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To Frances Mary Peard
[August 1862]

Many thanks for this paper on Elisha, it is so exactly the thing that it makes me feel what an excellent collaborateur you are! I believe your next is the Babylonish destruction with an eve to the final one and of course the Anti-type, but you always take the very course I like best in your comments.

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To an Unknown Man
Oct 7th 1864 [?]

Sir, I am inclined to think that your purpose would best by answered by SW’s Manuals on the Prayerbook, which have been written to enable scholars to prepare for competition for the Bishop of Exeter’s Prize. They, however, are only on parts of the Prayer book. There are also easy questions, going through the Prayerbook in recent volumes of the Monthly Paper, I think the 3d and 4th but am not sure.

Yours faithfully C M Yonge

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To Alexander Macmillan
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Jan 31st 1866

Dear Mr Macmillan Thank you for your kind full letter. I feel great confidence in Dr Vaughan, and should consider his as a very safe name to sanction the Library; and I think all the arrangements shew great consideration for my views. I think I could well work under them. I believe that the toleration that you ascribe to me is rather for persons than principles. I do very greatly admire many persons who I think ... continue reading

To Alexander Macmillan
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Feb 17th [1866]

My dear Mr Macmillan I am sorry that Dr Vaughan cannot undertake to give us his name. I wish indeed that the Archbishop of Dublin could, but if it is in vain to fly so high, what do you think of Dean Alford? I do not know him personally, nor would his name give the same complete confidence to the High Church as those before mentioned, but it might be the best attainable.

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To Alexander Macmillan
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Novr 19th 1866
Dear Mr Macmillan, You will think there is no end to my tormenting you, but Mr Hugo Borges of Cambridge has been writing to me rather urgently on behalf of his friend Mr Otto Franke, of whom I dare say you have heard, to ask me to let him translate any future novel into German. I answered that what I had in hand was going into your Magazine, and he replies that this is just what ... continue reading
To Anne Elizabeth Mary Anderson Morshead
Elderfield
October 8, 1869.
My dear Mary It seems as if all of the letters one wrote to you began with sorrow, for now six weeks nearly after that great blow at Puslinch, it still seems as if it had but first happened. I thought of you at once, for I think you were one who very much loved and looked up to her, and to whom she had put out a great deal of her power of sympathy, as ... continue reading
To Louisa Anne Gibbs
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Decr 1st [1869]

My dear Louisa, I am so much obliged to you for that letter, I think the giving a set of necessary tables to be learnt by heart is an excellent idea which I had not thought of. I had come to your conclusion about questions. I had been always used to them with school children, but Helen and Arthur have minds and memories awake enough not to want to be badgered with questions. The plan I ... continue reading

To Susanna Warren
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
[1 October 1870]

My dear Miss Warren, Did you see in the Guardian the death of ‘Elizabeth Jane wife of the Revd Thomas Keble’?- my own dear Mrs Keble’s sister. She had but two days illness, and her husband is left feeble and broken. Nobody expected him to live through the winter but she was strong healthy person and it seemed as if her life was absolutely necessary to him - I have however written to the son, who ... continue reading

To Augusta Boevey Pode
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Novr 8th 1875

My dear Augusta

I don’t know how it is but there never seems to be room in the Packet. I cannot get in my own Cameos, nor finish up the Three Brides as I meant to have done by two chapters at a time. When I began the York & L Rose I thought both it and Dt Cecil would end at Midsummer, and now I find that they will last on into next ... continue reading

To Susanna Warren
March 22nd [1870?]

My dear Miss Warren

That S P C K is a very queerly governed thing - more like Venice than anything else I think

But I should be very glad to be at work with you again! and to have your pretty Saints day stories -

The only doubt I have is how soon space will be manageable, as I do not see to the end of Daniel at this moment, as all the translation is not ... continue reading

To Frances Mary Peard
Tyntesfield
Sept 3rd [1862]
My dear Miss Peard I am afraid the meeting will misfire, as we are now not to go to Teignmouth till the 5th. It is a great pity that it is not to be tomorrow though I own I should be sorry to end our visit here sooner. We shall be at Delamere a house at Bishops Teignton which is lent to the Miss Pattesons, we arrive there on Friday afternoon, and go on Monday ... continue reading
To Henrietta Elizabeth Fursdon
Elderfield
Decr 29th [1860s]
My dear Henrietta Many thanks to you both for your answers to the Scripture questions, - you see they are beginning to come into the Monthly Paper if you take it in I hope Glow Worm's cold is mending.  Her Gay Geese were quite new to the collections.  I have sent all the Goose answers, though I think Gurgoyle's must stand as the best.  I think you will be delighted with the Barnacle it is a very ... continue reading
Alexander Macmillan to Charlotte Mary Yonge
Nov. 7 1866
Dear Miss Yonge, Only a line to say that I have had the [illegible]  of Miss Peards [illegible]. I have been thinking that it would hardly do to begin a Series such as we spoke of with. That it should come some way on. Even among church of England people the History of the Prayer Book is not the most attractive subject, though I do think it about the most useful. Still for a set of ... continue reading