Dear Madam

I should like much to get your Christmas tree paper in for December, and I will try, but it must depend on the reckoning of pages by the printer

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam,

I must apologise most heartily. The fact was, I had sent off your second M S to be printed and foolishly had not set down your address. So when those letters came I searched my memory, and made this strange blunder, I dont know how, except that our vicar being gone away to be married there has been such a whirl of parish work that it has confused my senses, I think.

However I ... continue reading

My dear Madam

I well remember the apprentice system in Devonshire (where to this day they call farm boys apprentices though I don’t believe they are so) I believe it was a good thing that the system was done away with for the farmers were apt to be very harsh with them. My grandfather, as a magistrate had continually to hear complaints about their being flogged. The people who might have done them good seldom had ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I am afraid your paper is too outspoken for the atmosphere of the Monthly Packet - which has to be guarded for young readers.

I should think there was every chance of the SPCK being glad to take your papers.

I do not know Cornwall at all, but is it not too strong to say that Adultery as such is not viewed as a sin - even by very neglected people

The other sin is - ... continue reading