My dear Anne

Thanks for your letter, and Mamma’s thanks for Mary’s. I am very glad indeed that you like Amy Herbert though I was sure you would enjoy it, her brother comes here today and I am sure he will be glad to hear of its being such an amusement to aunt Yonge. I am curious to know what you say about certain things I have heard objected to Some people especially ... continue reading

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 Miss Sewell, You will think that this is to announce the Simeons but there is no news of them all this time, and the hyacinths are blowing for them in vain in their bay window at Winchester.

My present purpose is to pass on to you a question which a correspondent of mine - a clergyman’s wife in Cornwall - has sent me on the principle of a delusion of which I have known other ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan If you think this preface will do, please send it to the printer.

I thought some acknowledgment of the sources was due -- and some hint too of what is less authenticated.

I have wound up with a suggestion about penny readings, as I think the book might be useful for it, but if this is not advisable it may come out.

From Monday to Saturday of next week we shall be staying with the ... continue reading

My dear Edmund, Here is an entreaty I have had from Mary. I can’t worry the old Warden, and I don’t know what niece is with him. I don’t think there is much to see extra at New College, but would you send her a note to make it possible. I think one sees the Hall naturally, and there was not much in the Library to see, but I suppose William of Wykeham’s staff is only ... continue reading

My dear Miss Sewell, Will Friday the 21st suit you for my coming for a conference? If you think there is any thing for me to bring let me know before Wednesday. I am going, I believe, to New College on the 31st, so that I can take anything for you.

I don’t like to give up the French spelling of the names, I don’t think Count of is a parallel, since that is translated, but I ... continue reading

My dear Mr Warden, I find I cannot well leave home till the 3.30 train on Wednesday, so I hope to be at Oxford at 6.45. I hope this is not so late as to put out your dinner hour as I think it often is at 7.30. I am very glad to hear that Mr Wither will be there

Yours very sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Elizabeth

I ought long ago to have written to you though you told me not, I fully meant to have done so, I was so delighted with the book, but we have had a sad time of illness with poor Gertrude She got better for a fortnight, and then came all the old troubles, and now she has another abscess under her knee and I do not think will be up for a ... continue reading

My dear Mr Warden

Thank you much for your kind reply. I hope to appear with my maid by the train that reaches Oxford at 4.25, when I think I arrive just in time for chapel. I have just got a card for Mrs Talbot’s evening party that night.

I am afraid I cannot stay after Saturday as I am engaged to spend Sunday at the Deanery at St Pauls.

With all thanks and kind regards to ... continue reading