My dear Miss Butler Thank you for your message. I do not think Rudolf requires to return to you for he stands so much alone that he only needs to be taken out.

Thanks too for the derivations, I shall trouble you with plenty more, I have no doubt, when I am at home with my list, and see my way out of the Latin derived names. I am to go home this afternoon after ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler Here is Aunt Louisa’s Berne chapter, which with its Ogre fountain will, I think, be considered very amusing. I hope you will be able to let me have her conclusion next week, as she will then finish with the volume, always satisfactory, as not leaving straggling chapters for another. However this may be asking much in this week, and when I suppose next month is already bringing you preparations and ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler Many thanks for Basle, which will do very well. I am only sorry it had to be finished at an inconvenient time. And many thanks for Aunt Louisa altogether. She has been a very pretty pleasant portion of the Monthly Packet. I am sorry all the pages in the Packet were settled so that I could not get in even a verse of Gertrude, one of the people I ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler ‘Likes and Dislikes’ are beginning at last you see, and here is the first chapter of them, looking very inviting.

We have had great enjoyment in a visit from your cousin Elizabeth, I only wish her back was stronger. Are you meditating any travels this summer, the Packet wonders in rather an interested mood. By the by, if you have any idea, I should be glad to know what sort ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler Many thanks for your last kind letter which I fear you will not think I requite well with halving the present chapter, but it is an unusually long one, and has a good resting place in it, and I am anxious to put in a whole paper on the Colyseum, which has much interest in it. I have no doubt you will manage to make Aunt Theresa satisfactorily personal and not ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler Many thanks for the chapter of Likes and Dislikes, which brings out Emilys moral very satisfactorily. I should not like it to be the absolute last, and should quite wish to continue her history after an interval. How would it be - if we were to continue the story next July year - if we may venture to look so far forward, and if it do not suit you better ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler Many thanks for Chapter XV which is very lively and promising, and in itself is all that the Packet could wish, though of course I know it is but a single brick of the house which you have not yet built. It amused us exceedingly, and your writing is so easy to read that it is as pleasant as having a chapter of some printed book sent to us. Shall ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler I must thank you for the motto, I have a certain liking for Götz partly for Sir W Scott’s sake I believe omission /or rather deferring is better than mincing after all, but it is hard to manage to fit all into 80 pages, where the grave, the useful and the gay must each have a fair share, and the dull gets put off & put off till our deferred correspondent ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler I was going to return this long ago, but I wanted to hear from Mr Mozley whether he could conveniently print the remaining chapters to the end, and he has vouchsafed me no answer, so I mean to wait long enough to give him time to set his types free of the forthcoming number, and then send the whole with a request to have it done at once. I had been making ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler

Mr Mozley shall have a jog, but I think the time you fix is nearly the natural one. There will be rather a crowd in the December number as I had to put off a long beautiful story till I could get it in whole, and those old notes on Roumelia must be finished off with the year, so I am afraid of more than a note on the Ursulines (What ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler I enclose with the Packet’s warm thanks the pay for Likes & Dislikes. I am so glad to think of the continuation for I think the notion of setting Emily to tame young ladies running to seed an excellent one.

Miss Sturges Bourne has just been conducting a sick cousin to Wiesbaden, and thinking with much diversion of Helen. She was near going to Marienbad itself which would have been amusing. ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler, Two lines to say that here I am at home, & shall be delighted to have Likes & Dislikes if they are ready. I go to Dogd on Monday week, but if I could have them in the interval, I should be glad. But I am afraid it is of no use to try for two chapters in one number I am engaged to so much, I have been reading Peothès ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler, I certainly do like the Likes and Dislikes so much that I consider my self selfdenying in what I am going to say, and you will consider me servile, but I really believe that the Packet must steer clear of Puseyite name and discussion, and do what it does silently. So I suspect, with all thanks, that it will be wiser for Emily to stand alone, and yet I am sorry ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler With all Christmas wishes, and with my brother’s thanks, I return your catalogue, he has taken the address of the bookseller and means to write to him as soon as the Icelandic fervour returns. At present he is more occupied with his turning lathe. I wish some critic would laugh at the endless repetitions of Thor’s visit to Loki, as if it were to Sagas what Harold’s body is to ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler

I am ashamed not to have answered you sooner, but alas it is too late for May or June either so long beforehand does the Packet make itself up. If you had put me in mind of it in February, I could have provided, now I fear we must wait till cuckoo time next year, and pray let me have the papers so early in the spring as to be able to ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler

I cannot tell you much about poor Mr Parker. I fancy he has not been in good health for some time he went abroad for the winter about 4 years ago, and was abroad again all August & September this year, only coming home just at the beginning of October, when I had one or two notes from him, but when my book came out, 5 weeks ago, his man [[person:178]Mr ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler

It is very kind of you and Mrs Butler but I believe Miss Mackenzie is likely to come to me immediately after Lownie’s visit, and as there have been some difficulties about her coming before I could not put it off again.

This is a hurried day so I must only write my thanks

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Butler

I am afraid that there would not be good room for your paper till the end of the year—I mean Jany 1889. I agree with you that those old letters are full of deep interest, and such curiously unexpected traits come out in them.

You will see in a note in the next Monthly Packet a very odd thing just disinterred out of some papers of my great-great-great grandfather about a tradition ... continue reading