My dear Madam,

I have been waiting to thank you for your last additions to the August Garland till I could send you the proof. I was provoked last month to find that the ‘Penny Post’ had forestalled us with the Angel of death and Sleep in prose, not half so pretty as yours, but I suppose we ought to wait a little, as the two magazines have a good deal the same kind of circulation. ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge,

I leave my wife to answer the part of your letter which concerns her.

Yes: I had read your memoirs of Madame Lamourous; and our Sisters have just been reading it at meal time in the Refectory. But I am bound to tell you that I asked our Mother to mark out other observations of yours about the faith &c of the subject of your memoirs: which, to tell you the truth, I ... continue reading