My dear Ellie- Thank you for your loving little note. Did you see in the Hants Chronicle a little bit of what I said after the speeches, of the Bishop of Guildford and Mr. Warburton? I could not help, when they said I had made clergy and good men seem real, almost murmuring that my good men were not ideals, but I had really known their equals (and superiors) in reality. Mr. Warburton was ... continue reading

It is in an appendix to collected editions of Mrs. Hemans’ life and works, where she had made notes of subjects from history suitable to write poems upon, unluckily without saying where they came from. I have watched for this story for years . . . I will write to the friend who owns the copy of Mrs Hemans from which I took it.

My dear Mr Warburton Alas! I wish I could be in two places at once, for I do not at all want to miss the Committee which is enjoyable and instructive- But I have been engaged for weeks past to a GFS meeting, and I can’t get off for I have a note from Mrs Elgee this morning that her speaker one at least fails, & I must do it. Whereby it is all the ... continue reading

Dear Mr Warburton Tentatively I put the close of the Council of Trent as the end of the Church History Period - Also I mentioned Gardiner’s School history, not that I have seen it, but I have been told that it is remarkably fair and good about Cranmer.

Did you hear this story

Inspector -What was the first effect of Mary’s accession?

Class - Several Bishops lost their sees.

Inspector - Well, what does that mean?

Silence -One boy at ... continue reading

Dear Canon Warburton I will send £1 for dear Bishop Harold Browne’s memorial but I am away now from cheque books. I go home on Saturday however having partly come to hear the history of the wonderful surprises of Aug 11th with which the Moberly’s had much to do.

Mrs Wordsworth is very cheerful, I hope to see her this afternoon

Yours very truly C M Yonge

My dear Canon Warburton Would it be asking too much of your kindness to ask you to glance over this paper and see whether it is an advisable one to have in Mothers in Council. I do not know whether you have heard of the Mother's Union, started by Mrs G Sumner (the wife of the Bishop of Guildford) at first for poor women, to rouse them to some heed to the training of ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Warburton

A great many thanks for your kind present. It is my favourite period of history and I am sure Mr Warburton will have treated it in a more kindred spirit than I think has been shewn in all the books of this series, some of which have disappointed me especially the Wars of the Roses, but I am sure I shall enjoy reading this.

Yours very sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Canon Warburton

Thank you for the sight of the papers. The plan is just what I have wished for so long- and those Occasional papers are excellent.

I wonder how young the people are whom the Elementary questions are supposed to reach. As I see in the report that only 9 sets of answers are come in, I am afraid they are not meant for children below Confirmation age, school room and school ... continue reading

Dear Canon Warburton

I send you a spare proof of your final story in case you should like to have it apart from its adjuncts of the Christmas number

Yours very sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Mr Warburton

I am glad you are coming to us, and hope you will come to luncheon. I trust we shall have all things in right order but to have so active and efficient a head suddenly laid aside is somewhat paralysing. I trust however that the corner will have been turned some days before Thursday.

I am afraid there are no daffodils and only scant primroses to attract your daughters

Yours sincerely C M ... continue reading

My dear Mr Warburton

I am afraid that when I think of myself as teaching Standards V and VI I feel your first sections somewhat alarming - though perhaps they are not harder than some of the extracts in the advanced Readers and my country children may be no fair criterion

I do not think that the narrative part is so difficult, but in the generalising. What makes it delightful reading to us - the allusions, ... continue reading

My dear Mr Warburton

Our good Vicar sank suddenly last night, and died this morning.

Could you be so kind as to change the examination day-? Any day after next week, but it is so likely the funeral may be on Thursday and we all feel so full of consternation and grief that we do not know how to be ready, though we would be any time after the 4th

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Mr Innes

The copies to Canon Warburton were for presentation to the Central libraries of our Diocesan Society for Higher Religious Education.

I imagine that half a sheet will be quite enough, giving me 4 pages besides those for index and title which I always grudge but I cannot tell till I get the list of make up.

I see Chapman and Hall’s M S will not do. I much dislike stories in dialect and indeed I ... continue reading

My dear Canon Warburton

‘Foundations of the Creed’ by the Bishop of Carlisle has just been mentioned to me in a letter as a particularly good book for the present time. Perhaps someone else has set it down, but it is better to run the risk of mentioning what is known than to leave it out.

That Pearl story haunts me. I think I see how it may make a very nice little romance after incubation!

Yours ... continue reading