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My mother and I are much obliged for your kind letter. Our route to Thirsk lies direct from London, and we are due there on Friday, staying there about a fortnight or so--but afterwards we have to get across to Gloucestershire, and Sheffield is so temptingly on the way, that if you are likely to have room for us, we should much like to sleep a night at Ecclesfield, in the last of September, as ... continue reading
I quite agree with you as to the promise of power in Aunt Judy’s doings . . . tell her that I shall like to have her intended story. I like to hear that you are about one of the Aunt Judy race too, but really between Aunt Judy herself and you as Aunt Judy, it is not easy to distinguish in one’s letters which one means, though there is no such difficulty in the ... 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
Pray tell Juliana that I have been told of a master at Rugby who was so fascinated with The Brownies that he ordered all the 30 old volumes of the magazine for his house!
... continue readingMy dear Aunt Judy, I am glad that you are not thinking of crossing today—for assuredly you would never cross, and I hope the winds and waves may have abated by this day week, when it will be very pleasant to meet you at Bishopstoke, and look forward to the whole of the next day. May it be a fine one! We will take you to Winchester any time you please on the 31st, and make ... continue reading
Gentlemen, I am greatly obliged for the copies of Mrs & Miss Gatty’s Books. I find that my not having sooner received the former ones was owing to my directions for the forwarding of parcels to me me [sic] not having been attended to. I am sorry that I have thus been the innocent cause of so much inconvenience and of having thus received more than my due of copies.
yours faithfully C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Miss Gatty,
The Signora Linda Villari wife to Professor Villari at Florence sent me this pretty little sketch of a real favourite bird. It is too youthful for the Packet, but I think you will like to open a connection with her, as she writes prettily and freshly. I enclose a card she sent with her address. She wrote a very pretty story once for the Packet called the Angel of Viareggio.
I hope you ... continue reading
My dear Miss Gatty
‘A bit of Green’ was only in the number preceding ‘the Blackbird’s Nest’- July 1861. I had been on the like quest for the sake of the few words I have said in a conversation on books in the August number, I should have done so in the July one only that it was another persons conversation into which [it] would not fit
I did not write to you for what can I ... continue reading