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To a member of the Neale family?
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester
Feb 21st 1880

Dear Madam

Bishop Jenner tells me that I should apply to you for permission to use two of Dr Neale’s Songs of the Trades in a little book of poetry for children which I am putting together for Marcus Ward The Songs of the Engine Driver and the Silk Thrower are those that I mean, and I may perhaps also wish to have the Ironfounder, as well as the ballad of Aristomenes in the Greek ... continue reading

To the Very Reverend William John Butler
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Sept 7th 1885
My dear Mr Dean I am very much obliged, and so will be the proposer of the prize for your decision. The other two did come, some days later, and so did about twenty names, but they were all so bad that I did not like to trouble you with them. I fully expected that Vertumnus’s would be chosen, as I think he is the only Gentle man who has tried and he understands both music and ... continue reading
To Arthur Donald Innes
Elderfield
June 9th [1888]

Dear Mr Innes

If you look at the notice at p. 499 of the May no and 599 of the June you will see the fees as to questions fully explained. In fact I do not know what more there is to say about them.

Bishop Jenner has carefully looked over the Prayer book Lessons and returned them to me and I am going over them with his criticisms. Half is quite ready if you want it ... continue reading

To the Reverend John Frederick Watkinson Bullock
Elderfield
June 16th 1894
Dear Mr Bullock, I do not know Canterbury well enough to attempt it. I have only seen it three times cursorily once on the day of the Archbishop’s installation- the best person to undertake it would be Miss Jenner Preston Vicarage Wingham Dover Bishop Jenner’s daughter who knows the Cathedral well and has a good deal of power of writing I think I could do Salisbury Yours truly C M Yonge ... continue reading