Dear Madam,

I am sorry to have kept you waiting so long for an answer about Lady Beatrix, but first I was unhinged by a long influenza, and then a great Sorrow has engrossed me, and left me little time for letter writing.

I like the journal very much in its gentle tone_

I only think in revising it, it will need a little condensing - and one or two things struck me. I do not think Scots ... continue reading

My dear Miss Dampier, I am sorry to do no more than leave the parcel but we have to be at home in time to take Mrs Halliday to meet the train, so I can only deposit this at your door. I am much better thank you, and the nightingales have begun to sing in hearing from the house though not as near as they sometimes are. I enclose the 1/6 for Montrose.

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Dampier I must tell you and your sister how sincerely I grieve for you. I think the bereavement of the last parent is the sorrow that an unmarried woman always feels most, it seems so entirely to end the sense of being a child at home to be thought for and cared for, and to leave one so desolate, without shelter from the world.

I suppose it is that having been trained ... continue reading

Dear Mrs Dampier

All good thanks and wishes. Happy you. Poor Mrs Jones Bateman. Lloyd is rejoicing to go. She is gone from home unable to stay alone

Yours affectionately C M Yonge

My dear Miss Dampier,

Here are your books with many thanks, and the Scotch one. It is the Edinburgh baillie who is worth reading—the other is horrid. I will get the rest of Mademoiselle as soon as I can and send her or bring her.

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Dampier Do you think you and your sister could manage to come and spend an evening here while Gertrude Walter is staying with me? I do not ask you to dinner because she cannot go down to it and would have much more pleasure if you would drink tea with us – any evening except Saturday the 22nd or Monday or Tuesday the 24th and 25th would suit us, if you will choose ... continue reading