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My dear Miss Wilford
Yesterday was the Ampfield anniversary of the consecration of the Church and I took a grand holiday - including a walk from Ampfield to Hursley with Mr Keble, and so I could not write but we have read your Seven Campbells and like them very much. I suspect boys would believe in them more if John Lackland always went by his English name.
I do not think a Scottish minister stands on the ... continue reading
My dear Miss Smith,
I send you an order for the chapters of the Thorne that have appeared- also another to correct. I think people like it much - your neighbour Miss Wilford was talking about it yesterday she is staying with her aunt at St Cross, and I am always much tempted to betray you
yours sincerely
C M Yonge
The Order is payable to Ann Smith - more names always cause blunders
... continue readingMy dear Miss Smith,
I am half afraid of plunging into a tour because I have got so many on hand, that Eastern journal is indeed printed to the end, but I cannot get it in, and the Journal in Holland lingers on, and I have some Italian letters that I grieve not to have got in, so on the whole I think I had better decline yours, though if I had not been so ‘furred ... continue reading
My dear Christabel Photography must certainly turn you into a most pensive mood. You are a great contrast to the solid jolly damsel in the old Gosling book. Your Ridge is very good. I will send it round with the answers, but as yet I have had no answers but Cricket and Lady bird, and the Turks cap has been so ill used that she has had neither questions answers nor Barnacle, this time – so ... continue reading
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 Miss Bourne Gertrude is very thankful for the snowdrops and much pleased. Yes, Frances is still about, and at this moment I have Florence Wilford here, she has been nearly killed with nursing the two old ladies at St Cross, and is here now collecting a little strength, I hope, I do not quite know for how long. I seem to have all visiting disorganized this year, and now some evening Wednesday ... continue reading
My dear Christabel, The Humberts are very nice people, Florence Wilford is very fond of them and he was an immense comfort to the two old ladies. He was the making of St Cross, as first Master after the reformation there, and did an immense deal both for the Church and parish, but when his wife got softening on the brain, he lost his delight and love in the place and became anxious to get away ... continue reading