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To Mary Anne Dyson
Rownhams
February 11, 1869.

My dear Marianne- Here I am in the heat of the weather, with a copse before my eyes where the "grey blossoms twinkle" more like “a bright veering cloud" than I ever saw anything do before, but they are the silver buttons on the withies. Maria had a talk with Mr. Siddon, who expressed the most unqualified delighted approval of the book, but in general I think people regret that it is more the history of ... continue reading

To Sir William Heathcote, Bt.
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester
February 28, 1869
My dear Sir William I am not quite so audacious as to sit down in cold blood to review Sir J. T. C., but you are quite right that many of the expressions were mine. The fact was that the editor of the Literary Churchman, Mr. Ashwell, who has been a very kind friend and helper, asked me to tell him what chiefly struck me with a view to his paper, and he has put many ... continue reading
To the Reverend Henry Parry Liddon
New College
June 4th [1869]

Dear Mr Liddon Thank you for your very kind answer. A letter will be an excellent way of conveying your recollections. I think considering what Hursley Vicarage was, it would have been perfect treason to have made notes of the daily life and conversation - What seems to me most wanted is something to give an idea of Mr. Keble’s greatness and his championship - and this Sir J Coleridge writing from an equality and without ... continue reading

To William Garrett Horder
Elderfield Otterbourne
July 28th [1877]

Sir Mr Keble’s biography or even the title page of the Lyra Innocentium you would have seen that the whole of the poems is by him with one single exception, which is acknowledged.

The Child’s Christian Year is a compilation of many different poems by numerous authors

yours truly C M Yonge

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To Sir John Taylor Coleridge
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
April 22nd [1872]
My dear Sir John, Before writing to thank you, I have been copying your portrait of Sir John Patteson into my beginning so as to make it fill up what was wanting in what I had copied from Mr Comyns memoir, which is all too external. It has seemed to me from the first that as full a portraiture of both father and mother as possible ought to be given. I only wish I had ... continue reading