Dear Mr Furnivall

Thanks for the list of needs of the letter B. I had been making the like, but found the wants so constantly supplied from the overflowings of your pigeon holes that I grew lazy and desisted.

The printer at Winchester charges 7/6 per 1000 for the titles he prints for us on show paper, and we have had 4000 - which have chiefly been used by my mother, as I have generally taken mine ... continue reading

Sir,

Mr Furnival has forwarded to me your proposal of dealing with me for my tale of the Clever Woman of the Family as a book - I should be obliged if you would let me know your terms for publishing on commission; and like wise if in case of such an arrangement being practicable, whether you would take charge of my works that have been hitherto in Mr Parker’s hands - All have been published ... continue reading

Dear Mr Furnivall, I do not think I quite know what ought to be the rule about the news and the nons. I meant to have asked you but somehow missed doing so. My own notion would have been only to put those as words - (in the case of new) which could not be explained by simple disintegration -- as for instance new-birth for regeneration, but not new born, when simply meaning lately born. But ... continue reading

Dear Mr Furnivall, Thanks for your enclosure I hope to make use of it when I get home, but just at present we are wanderers, very decided wanderers at this moment for I am writing at a little station on the Great Northern having missed our train by two minutes, so that we have the pleasure of waiting for three hours before we can get on to Peterborough and Ely. I hope to be at home ... continue reading

Dear Mr Furnivall, Thank you for the English Text. I do not think I can have had the hymns to the Virgin. The last I had bears the date 1866, and is a collection of poems on love, religion and politics, beginning with 'Twelve words &c-' What a wonderful store you have there!

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Our Otterbourn is in Domesday, but I don’t know how spelt[.] Ottery St Mary always appears in early times ... continue reading

Dear Mr Furnivall I have a friend belonging to a Cornish family staying with me, and she thinks her relations competent to look over the Cornish which is not naughty English, so she is sending it to them, and they will return it to you

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Furnivall I am afraid I cannot now read the books mentioned, as they have drifted out of my reach and I have much less time than I had in the old times when it was undertaken

Yours truly C.M. Yonge

Dear Mr Furnivall

You must have my Ns somewhere, for I put them all into their sack and sent them back to you I should think four or five years ago, I know it was just as a friend came to live with me, and I had to make room for her possessions

Yours truly C.M. Yonge

Dear Mr Henderson ,

Pray take your own time in making the addition to the paper on Folk Lore, it will not be able to appear in the January no. and indeed I fear I may have to divide it, as 45pp is rather a large allowance out of 112 for one subject, and it will answer better to cut it in two. I am glad to hear of the further additions.

Many thanks ... continue reading