My dear Charlotte I had written one letter to you today when your other came by the second post and I just stopped it. I am writing to Mrs Johns to desire her to put these Carters into communication with you. I believe the Bishop of Victoria is not much of a Churchman. On the whole I think governesses are much more inclined to height than depth in the present day. [[person:2279]Mrs ... continue reading

Dear Miss Medhurst I like your New Year’s Eve poem, but I ought to have had it long ago.

If you have not disposed of it otherwise, will you send it to me next October for December of 1873.

I believe Mrs Mercier has put a little pupil of mine under your care as member of the Guild Emmeline Spratt. She is a really good girl I believe, and very affectionate but I should not wonder if ... continue reading

Dear Miss Medhurst Thank you for your kindness to Emmeline, she is an affectionate girl and has a refinement about her that makes her pleasant to have to do with. Her brother with whom she lives was one of the College choristers at Winchester and had a good education there, so I hope she is in good hands, but a little notice and sympathy will be a great help in the great plunge it must ... continue reading

My dear Miss Medhurst I did hope to have put in this sonnet of yours in time for Ascension day, but I could not manage it, so I can only send you the proof and thank you for your kindness to Emmeline Spratt, who after her visit to you wrote the happiest letter she had written at all since leaving home

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Medhurst

It is ungrateful not to have thanked you sooner but your letter came while I was from home and I have since been working through the accumulation of things that had arisen on me

What a good photograph yours is. I am sure they are much improved since there was only a little face on the top of a great crinoline. I am afraid the Infirmaries in many places - as well as ... continue reading

My dear Miss Medhurst

I believe Emmelines engagement is an excellent one in every way except for the unfortunate matter of the man being a dissenter

He seems to be a very good man, a clerk, and of a station rather above, much given to good works. He has had to provide for a large family of brothers and sisters and is waiting to marry till they are off his hands. I don’t think one can object, ... continue reading

Dear Miss Medhurst,

Thank you for your kindness to Emmeline. I believe she is coming down here for a month to recruit if her brother can spare her. I hope it is only want of love, but her aunt is anxious because loss of voice was the beginning of illness with another aunt - a school mistress - who went into a decline and the thought of whom prevented us from pressing Emmeline to be ... continue reading