My dear Anne Thank you for taking all my impertinence so kindly. I hope you will not be very angry with me for being highly delighted with Mary Coleridge’s prospects, and not even pitying Alethea so much as Cordelia Colborne, for you must remember that Mary will live very near home and the sisters may see each other every day of their lives, and for Mary’s youth, she is much older at twenty, than many people ... continue reading

My dear Mary, My letters must seem to be very few & far between but sudden revolutions happen now & then, wh disorder my private arrangements, such as yesterday, when I was just seated to write to Alethea & Uncl Wm proposed driving Char: & me to Southampton, & before we came back the visitors were arrived. You will see how much I enjoyed your very long letter presently when I tell you how pleasant ... continue reading

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

My dear Mrs Trebeck Thank you for your excellent letter, I hope you are going to circulate it and that it is not to be only diocesan

What a tower of defence we have lost in Lord Selborne

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Lady Sophia, I am asked to send this card, in case Lord Selborne has a vote disengaged for this poor young man. I hope the Blind are not so plentiful as idiots and incurables from whom there is no peace!

I suppose you have Dr Pusey’s life, it must be wonderfully interesting but it has not yet come in my way. It seems to fill up the complement of the other lives - I remember ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Lennard I suppose your friends are only prepared to make remuneration by entertaining the English folks in return Otherwise I might be able to tell you of someone but everybody is so poor in these days that I am afraid it could hardly be done gratis.

I sent off a magazine by yesterday’s post Luckily there was one over as we had had one too many of an extra number and it gives ... continue reading

Dear Mr Duncan

Gray is difficult with all the notes, and so is Anstice, so perhaps they had better come out. I did not mean the poetry to have been numbered as Lessons but to have stood as a sort of embellishment to be learnt or not according to need - or understanding I should rather have omitted the conversation between Arthur and Hubert than the account of the murder of the Princes in ... continue reading