My dear Miss Erskine, Your letter only came to me this morning as you see I am on my travels - so though it is before Tuesday, I think I had better answer to May. I shall be at 45 Westbourne Terrace for a few days after Wednesday, and shall I hope have a good sight of Mary Coleridge whom I have quite missed in Devonshire

I have told Ivanova (Miss Batty) of the Institution, and if ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Harrison

A great many thanks for the exceedingly nice frame, and all the arrangements for setting up the collects. I waited to thank you till they actually appeared so that I might acknowledge them at the same time. They are very nice and I am sure they will be a great pleasure to many, and help out many a Sunday

yours affectionately C M Yonge

My dear Mrs Harrison Thank you so much for my God daughter’s photograph. Alas! I have been a very bad Godmother to her, never having a chance to come in her way, but I go so little from home and when I do, it is always to my own people in Devon.

I have not been to London even for three years! Unluckily I just missed Mrs Bland when she was staying with the Bakers at Winchester. ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Harrison, I begin to fear that ‘Katharine Charlotte’’s photograph could not have taken effect, but you see I send her (or you) one of her godmother - It was done by one of my cousins, and if any of the kind friends at Whitburn care to have the like, we are selling them for a shilling apiece, our mercenary spirit being roused by the desire to build a school for the new Church ... continue reading