My dear Mr Moor

I wrote the paper you asked me to do for the CQ but I am sorry to say it was not good enough, and was rejected. I rather suspected that it would be for it was too long and too like a report. Do you like to have it for use in any other way? I have had an article from Mr Donald Mackay sent me for the Packet for August ... continue reading

My dear Charlotte

I cannot tell you how much pleasure Duke’s letter gave me yesterday morning and the whole Sunday that has passed since has only encreased [sic] the enjoyment of thinking of your future. It is so very pleasant to me that my own first god child, who has always seemed my god child above all my subsequent ones, should be committed to him whom I have known the best of all my cousins – ... continue reading

My dear Edith, You will think there is no end to me but I saw Mr Moore yesterday and he says that his magic lantern came from Carpenter & Newman 24 Regent Street, and that they are much better than Negretti having devoted their minds to magic lanterns His lamp is an Argand These were all your questions I could recollect, but if you have any more, he will gladly and clearheadedly answer them. Mamma has ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor, We are so very much concerned to hear of Mrs Moor’s illness, of which we were not at all aware till Saturday.

I would not trouble you now, but that I should be so very glad if you found it convenient to trust us with Selina and Philip. Mr Wither (who is obliged to go to Winchester today) desires me to say he would be very glad to have them and their maid ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I hope to send off the illustrations - or the material for them on Saturday.

I will write to Mr Portal, the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for permission for the portrait of Sir Wm Heathcote

Two books are with them - one (Lady Heathcotes) for the sake of the old views and plans - it is the original book by Marsh.

The other belonging to me is the Revd J.F. Moor’s written about 1860.

The ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor Will you write your list, and put it into this envelope, with anyone else’s who may want roots - Nobody else here will have any this year - Will you also add the no in Great Winchester St, I stupidly forgot to look at it before packing up the list - I am going to Hardwicke on Tuesday

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Mr Moor I have a very kind woman, Mrs James Hoskins who has brought up 6 daughters and two waifs and strays very well - is a Communicant &c She has a vacancy now having lost an old aunt who lived with her and having now only a brother and sister 8 and 7, would be glad of another child.

Only the Waifs and Strays specify that other or lodgers must not be taken, meaning ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor Mr Reynolds has just been here about Annie Norgate. I shall be most thankful to you for helping her, and shall gladly join in the £10.10 subscription for her

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Mr Davies writes to

Dear Mr Moore, Miss Finlaison told me that you thought there was a possibility of getting a pension for our blind girl, Annie Norgate. It would be a most happy thing, as she is entirely dependant on her parents - and the father is a labourer not so young as he was[.] There are fifteen children, but most are now off their hands[.] I believe the disease is atrophy of the nerve. It came on when ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor Many thanks for being so kind as to send me your book. I am glad it has prospered enough to come to another edition-

I think that the notice of Mr Wither’s birth was as it stood in the Hants’ paper I suppose it came from the roll at Winchester though I certainly thought he would have been 90 in November -

I am glad your German expedition was fairly satisfactory

Yours sincerely C M ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor This is what Mrs Arnold says, and I should think the terms as fair as could be expected. She is not a very charming looking person, but her husband has been half over the world and will probably be entertaining --- I wish I could send this over to you today, but our man is laid up with a bad cold --- Anything more you like me to do, I will ... continue reading

mere babes of 3 years old

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Mr Moor Your letter followed me home from Brighstone whence I returned on Wednesday. I will give you 10/ for St Pauls church when next I have an opportunity, but on Monday I am going to Oxford and I do not come back till the 12th

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Mr Moor Your opinion so entirely coincides with ours that I almost had my pen in my hand to write to you to say that we had only ten girls and five boys at school yesterday, and that I could conceive no variety of weather that will make the way passable for you and your spectators between this and tomorrow evening, and so that I had sent out messages to say the Lantern was ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor I feel very guilty at not answering you yesterday, but just as I had sat down to write notes, I was interrupted, and all the time after wards went away

We shall be very grateful if you can kindly delight the parish this day week, Friday 4th - and we hope you and Mrs Moor can come to /i e dinner luncheon - so as to have time to arrange the room. ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor Time vanished away suddenly from me yesterday, or I should not have missed thanking you for the division of the Income, which will be an excellent standard for the unpractical young ladies, some of whom I fear have been answering the question but I shall get theirs on the 25th

Mamma has been comparing your scale with our own, and finding we exactly agree in coals & wages and not at all in ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor I am sorry to say that I had sent the £600 a year question away, but I think you may safely assume that the clergyman lives in the country, and has a house, and glebe - and that the three sons are of an age to be educated - I cannot get at the propounder of the question, or I would have asked her

With many thanks Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Mr Moor Emily and I have been working away to make a question We suppose our young man to be a blacksmith or bricklayer as he earns such good wages. But if there is anything impossible or foolish or if you think it well to make it either more or less complicated, please to correct it

Supposing a young man to earn two and sixpence per day except Sundays, Christmas Day and Good Friday, and ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor I think it will be much better to throw the prizes open to the whole schools [sic]; it is so discouraging and troublesome to be put out of the competition, and everyone has not a garden who has children at school

My mother says she meant her prizes instead of the home prize - of course they would chiefly concern the first - not the second - if all the extraparochial people are ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor The prizes I should like to propose would be - First Shew Best copy book by a school boy Knife

by a school girl Writing case

Second 25 sorts of wildflowers rightly labelled with English names by a school child Book on Flowers

Best set of samples of needle work by a school girl - consisting of hemming sewing stitching felling marking darning 5s 2nd Best --- 1s

I dont think it any use to propose the like in the autumn because there are few flowers, and work ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor

Thank you much. I send the papers. I have hopes for this time, if there is no fresh very sad case in the way. I cannot call this case like a very bad one of great poverty though I should be exceedingly glad if it succeeded

I enclose my subscription

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Mr Moor

I enclose the £1 I fancied I had heard that Miss Le Gallais had made her start in life.

Will you tell Selina that I am sending on the magazine today

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Mr Moor

Thank you very much. There is one thing more that I want, when you come to the Confirmation, & that is the last SPG report. Subscribing through my friend here, I don’t get it direct I have made a beginning but I go from home for nearly a week after the Confirmation I do not know what to do about the Chandlers Ford children. There really are not many - & when ... continue reading

My dear Mary

Gertrude desires me to say that the little fish arrived quite fresh and were very nice too which I can testify as she sent me two for breakfast. I am sorry you could not go to the Kitley entertainment. I dont [sic] think the tenants can be very badly off at this rate!

We had a very nice confirmation Georgie went up first of the boys. We had 30 altogether, Hursley 2 Ampfield 15. ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor Mr Wither gives £7 a year and finds everything. What he wants is a girl who has been out before so as to have had her first teaching, and is well to be depended on not to be saucy or lazy with his old housekeeper, who is good natured, and will get up and do things herself instead of making the girl do them. The place is kitchen maid, as Sophy is ... continue reading