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

This life is not the Temple but the Gate Where men secure of entrance watch and wait

Aubrey de Vere

Dear Mrs Trebeck I am afraid this is too late but I cannot help sending it

yours sincerely C M Yonge

They are the end of his sonnet in answer to ‘A life worth living[‘]