My dear Florence, You wrote just in time for the pattern. I am going to send it tomorrow. There are five stitches between the outsides of each medallion and five rows of red beyond them at the top and bottom.

I am glad you have brought back your invalid safe and better and I wish you could speak better of your eldest sister. Is Mrs Cristall pretty well again. Yes, I was at Oxford. I think that ... continue reading

My dear Florence I am very glad to hear of you again, and I hope the touch of frost will not be felt at Bournemouth; it has spared all our flowers as yet. I waited to write because Christabel was coming to make up our plans for the new volume. We will try to put in 'Purification' poem for February, but I am afraid poems do not get much payment. I wish ... continue reading

I could not answer before as I was at the G F S annual Conference - more over my colleague took the M S away to read. She approves of it much, and we hope to put it in among the short stories, when we can. The same may be said of Emma’s poem, ... continue reading

My dear Florence

You have a birthday so seldom that one recollects it, so pray accept my best wishes and this tiny book. I am afraid there is a little black speck on its cover, but do not look to reject it on that account I hope you received the second volume of Thrupp on the Psalms. I do not like all of him, though I have learnt a great deal from him, he does not ... continue reading

My dear Florence

As next Tuesday is a Saint's day, perhaps I had better say that the boy would not find me at home, as the first Tuesday in every month there is a meeting of the High School committee. On all Thursday afternoons till Easter I have to be at the mother's meeting, and indeed we are so eaten up with preparing for the examinations that I can answer for no afternoons in February ... continue reading

Dear Mr Bullock, I will try to do Raymond Lull in short by the end of next week, I have both the books.

You will be glad to hear that I have had a cheerful letter from Miss Florence Wilford well, and at home with her sister

Yours sincerely C M Yonge