My dear Miss Warren,

Many thanks for your three letters and their enclosures. I am very glad the Society has taken it up, for not only will it now be cheaper and better got up, but it is a relief from responsibility - Miss Goodrich is personally known to Mr Evans, and has written a good many little books and tracts for the SPCK -'The cross bearer' - Faith Ashwin, the Chamois Hunters &c- Fanny Wilbraham ... continue reading

My dear Miss Warren,

Many, many thanks for the extracts. I was waiting to write and thank you for them till a few pressing letters were put out of the way - indeed I dont [sic] believe I thanked you intelligently for the first set, I mean not after I had really studied it. Henerety I believe to be meant for Henrietta here who was generally so called. Another they have given up in despair and ... continue reading

My dear Miss Warren,

The Lecture has not yet found its way to me, but I hope it soon will. I know there is no reason for mistrusting the post in such cases as a family party generally takes a good while in all sucking the marrow of anything of the sort, especially if it be in M S, and as I do not think we are likely to be interrupted for a long time there ... continue reading

My dear Fanny,

Your letter came to me safely yesterday, and very glad I am of the prospect it holds out. I wrote to Mr Raikes at once letting him [know] that it was just what I should like, but that he had better send it to me when I get home which I do not think will be till the end of October. I find it so very difficult to get a MS read away ... continue reading

Sir, I am inclined to think that your purpose would best by answered by SW’s Manuals on the Prayerbook, which have been written to enable scholars to prepare for competition for the Bishop of Exeter’s Prize. They, however, are only on parts of the Prayer book. There are also easy questions, going through the Prayerbook in recent volumes of the Monthly Paper, I think the 3d and 4th but am not sure.

Yours faithfully C M Yonge

Both are ... continue reading

My dear Miss Warren Thank you for the two little books - Yours I do like greatly, but I am afraid I can’t quite take to your friend’s. I think it is too puerile. Don’t you think it might have been made easy without saying that David’s face was nice or that they played prettily - and the children that have to be told that there were no guns, would be rather amazed at hearing that ... continue reading

My dear Miss Warren, I am quite inclined to believe the Cambridge examinations to be a very good thing. I should have been very glad of them to work for when I was young enough. I hope it may occupy the clever young ladies [the rest missing]

My dear Miss Warren, Did you see in the Guardian the death of ‘Elizabeth Jane wife of the Revd Thomas Keble’?- my own dear Mrs Keble’s sister. She had but two days illness, and her husband is left feeble and broken. Nobody expected him to live through the winter but she was strong healthy person and it seemed as if her life was absolutely necessary to him - I have however written to the son, who ... continue reading

My dear Miss Warren

That S P C K is a very queerly governed thing - more like Venice than anything else I think

But I should be very glad to be at work with you again! and to have your pretty Saints day stories -

The only doubt I have is how soon space will be manageable, as I do not see to the end of Daniel at this moment, as all the translation is not ... continue reading