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My dear Cobweb
Your book is come, and as it will not travel by the post well, I am going to send it to London by Mr and Mrs Pode - Will you let me know whether they shall leave it anywhere for you or send it on to Chelsea by parcels delivery
I have not been able to settle the prize questions yet as all the answers have not come in.
Owl sent me a very ... continue reading
Dear Mr Macmillan, I sent the drawing by the train yesterday. It was very dull of me not to have seen that it was a drawing. Our only other criticism is that a touch or two might make the little Duke’s limbs more child like.
As a matter of fact I believe the Normans did not wear beards, but I only found this out long after the book was out, so book and beard must both stand ... continue reading
Miss Yonge would wish the following presentation copies of the Trial to be sent - if they have not already been sent, - she is not certain whether Messrs Macmillan had her list and should wish to guard against any being sent twice over - Copies to be sent to
Miss Coleridge Heaths Court
Care of JD Coleridge Esq 6 Southwark Crescent
also to -
Sir William Heathcote Bart M P 91 Victoria Street
Mrs Pode 3 Craven Place Westbourne Terrace
Miss [[person:1582]Anne ... continue reading
Dear Mr Macmillan, I send both title page and the proof of the statuette, which is indeed most beautiful and suggestive. I wrote yesterday about the title page. I could not do so before as I only came home late on Saturday and the Sunday post goes early. I enclose the list of presentation copies
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
Will you be kind enough to send the sheets of the Golden Deeds to Messrs Williams & Norgate for ... continue reading
My dear Hannah
At last I have got the direction you wished for - it is after all where it was and the address should be to
The Committee 32 Southampton Street Strand
I think they ought to make their advertisements clearer and better known, and I believe the clergyman who used to manage it is dead, and that his wife is as much in want as any she used to interest herself about, but that the organisation is ... continue reading
My dear Augusta It is rather funny that the same post as brought your letter about Lady Blachford’s indignation brought one from an American Correspondent of Gertrude’s saying that she had observed that strict older sisters did generally turn out indulgent Mothers. But I understand it this way. Wilmet had seen that strict laws had not fully answered with Fulbert, Angela or Bernard and the Harewoods were easygoing by nature and also there was ... continue reading
My dear Mary I am out in the drawing room again but no farther till the wind changes, and the cough departs, but Helen is coming to look after me on Monday, and Miss Finlaison has done so most kindly. By the by I never have had a headache all through so I don’t know how she came to [illegible] it- I hope Sydney is better - Augusta has begun to write letters ... continue reading
My dear Augusta
I don’t know how it is but there never seems to be room in the Packet. I cannot get in my own Cameos, nor finish up the Three Brides as I meant to have done by two chapters at a time. When I began the York & L Rose I thought both it and Dt Cecil would end at Midsummer, and now I find that they will last on into next ... continue reading
My dear Augusta
Certainly one is grateful to Miss Goodrich for being the cause of a letter. I have had a very long cold, chiefly irritation of the windpipe, which drove me away at last to Salisbury and Rownhams to get rid of it, and now it is nearly gone though I am still obliged to take more care than is convenient in the beginning of Lent. I had some very pleasant days last week ... continue reading
My dear Augusta
It is a long time since I heard of you and almost as long since I heard of Kate, and I am anxious to know how she got on this summer I hope Ernest is quite well after his chicken pox. I went about looking for him at Domum till I met Mrs Morshead and she told me he was gone home. The only Saints day that they did ... continue reading
My dear John
Thank you for your curious extract about names. I have one this morning from an Italian newspaper sent by Mrs Church, which beats everything. I translate it for your behalf- ‘The celebrated English Authoress of the Era di Ratcliffe is dead. Her name was Jong but in recognition of her talents, the Queen Victoria made her a Viscountess. She married the English ambassador at Constantinople but has continued ... continue reading