Dear Madam

I see I did send your other poems to the printer, by confusion in the twilight. But I like them so much as to be glad of it

yours truly C M Yonge

Nestorian Tablet in China

The Museum possesses a rubbing of the inscription on this tablet, presented in 1886 by the Rev. James Stevenson, of the China Inland Mission.

In the Museum Library may also be seen:—

‘The Middle Kingdom,’ by Dr S. Wells Williams: London, 1883. A translation of the tablet is given in Vol. II., pp. 277-285, with other information.

My dear CC Tory is banished, Juliette fell in love with him, so he is gone to Witham Chase, a very good home for him, and Vic is left lamenting – The mother mews all over the place but as she did before Tory went, I think it is from native accidie, not maternal grief- Aimée brought Miss Price to tea and sent Juliette, a little friend and a sort of semi governess to ... continue reading