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My dear Miss Smith
At last I have made out that last year’s blunder was that one short chapter of 8 pages was entirely missed over in the counting. This half year there are 76 pp, for which the amount is naturally £9. 10- the pound added from last time makes it £10.. 10- and the slight margin Mr Mozley now allows for our good contributors enables me to make it £12.. 10- for which I ... continue reading
My dear Anne,
A few lines I must write before we go – Your letter this morning told us much more than we had had before but it was so sad yesterday getting both together the letters written in the fluctuations. We shall be only one day’s post away now, and that really induces Mamma to go on to St Dunstans. Otherwise we should like to have staid [sic] in this kind quiet place. Those boys ... continue reading
My dear Mr Macmillan, This is a quick fire upon a busy man, but there are two or three things to say, and first that Mme de Witt has written to say that the Christian Names have not reached her, and asking whether you have sent them through any Paris bibliothèque where they could be enquired for. I also enclose a direction to which I should like to send a copy of the Golden Deeds. It ... continue reading
It was a great delight to me to receive a letter from Mr. Keble, by the February mail from England. How kind of him to write to me; and his words are such a help and encouragement.
I dare say I shall see Merivale’s Lectures soon. Nothing can well be so wonderful, as a proof of God’s hand controlling and arranging all the course of history to those who need it, as a subject for adoration ... continue reading
My dear Mr Shipley, I am afraid that such an awful subject would not suit with anything so light as the Monthly Packet, and that I had therefore better return it which I will do the next time I send into Winchester, I send you the prospectus of a cheap missionary magazine, which Miss Mackenzie hopes to make very interesting
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
[In different handwriting on the second half of the sheet]
Dear Mr Bramley I am very ... continue reading
My dear Anne- Thanks for your note in your haste. Of course we each meant 5s., I only wish it was more, though I don’t know that I should be writing to-day to say so if I did not want to tell you of what our hearts are so full of, namely, Mr. Keble’s state. He had seemed well and cheerful through all the fluctuations of her state, and had written a comfortable note to [[person:930]Miss ... continue reading
My dear Cousin, I write a line at once in reply to a letter of January 29, for I see that a great sorrow is hanging over you, is perhaps already fallen on you, and I would fain say my word of sympathy, possibly of comfort.
One, perhaps, of the great blessings that a person in my position enjoys is that he must perforce see through the present gloom occasioned by loss of present companionship on to ... continue reading
My dear Anne Mrs Keble has just returned me this, it had no end to it and I hope it ought not. How very interesting it is and how heart stirring Miss Arthur’s letter, which I am sending to Mrs T Keble. Our Nets are not come yet. I forgot to tell you of Miss Parkes’ Vignettes to order. I think you would find much to interest you
Your most affectionate C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Cousin, I enclose a note to Miss Mackenzie, thanking her for her book about Mrs. Robertson. It does one good to read about such a couple. I almost feel as if I should like to write a line to the good man. There was the real genuine love for the people, the secret of course of all missionary success, the consideration for them, the power of sympathy, of seeing with the eyes of others, ... continue reading
My dear Christabel, I should not have been so ungrateful if I had not been laid up, first by being deluded into eating some Scallop fish that everybody else flourished upon, and then by a wicked chair, which cast its hind leg as I was sitting down on it, and strained my back - Not till lately have I had the energy to pack up the Answers and write to you. I shall be very thankful ... continue reading
Dear Madam I am much obliged by your kindness in sending Mr Nobb’s letter - It is however the Melanesian mission, not the Pitcairners, for which I am collector and it is better not to mix the two arrangements. Bishop Patteson’s sisters sent out what is really worth sending to him, but in general money is more useful than goods, and people have been sending such useless things lately that I wished to check them.
I believe ... continue reading
My dear Edith, You will think there is no end to me but I saw Mr Moore yesterday and he says that his magic lantern came from Carpenter & Newman 24 Regent Street, and that they are much better than Negretti having devoted their minds to magic lanterns His lamp is an Argand These were all your questions I could recollect, but if you have any more, he will gladly and clearheadedly answer them. Mamma has ... continue reading
My dear Edith It is a sweet little sad face with the Passion flowers, and we have put it in for Lent. The last verses of the Lenten hymn far on in the book seem to suit it so well. Our criticism was that the glory makes rather a strong line against the right, and perhaps next time you come might be a little toned down, but it is after all the mediaeval habit.
The Haughton ... continue reading
My dear Maggie, Your book marker [is] a great beauty, and I thank you very much for it, particularly admiring the beautiful little shy bee. Mamma thanks Alice for her [note] and good news of you all. I hope we shall see you before long I am much better, and feel quite proud that I am sitting up to my work this morning while Miss Wilford is lying on her back. It is ten weeks since ... continue reading
Many many thanks for your most kind letter, and for telling me of the happy prospect before Dora . . . I have asked Mrs. Wilson to send on to you a letter of Bishop Patteson’s, which I think you will feel refreshed by reading; please send it on to Miss Anne Mackenzie. You are so very kind, and it would be very delightful to make one in the migration; but I have only seen ... continue reading
My dear Marianne Here we are, after having, I think, done very well on our journey. We met Miss Martin on board the steamer. I forget whether I told you that she had begged to come at the same time for the benefit of our escort, and though we had rather have been alone, she was very helpful and pleasant. She is the editor of the Sunday Library, which is the way we fell in with ... continue reading
My dear Edith I should think that it was a case for Miss Twining’s Home at 21 New Ormond Street for Incurables, but I believe it is very difficult to get in, as she has only 27, and they are paid for to about half the amount of their cost, though I do not know what the weekly amount is. They also take Incurables at Clewer, for a servant of Mrs Keble’s is there. I think ... continue reading
Dear Miss Finchcliffe, I am very glad to have seen Edith Crawley’s letter which I return with many thanks. I had proposed the Irishwoman to Mrs Gray for the Cape ladies, and she had rejected her, but perhaps they know their own plans best. I am glad that another and elder lady has been added to them for someone to take the command was much wanted.
I am glad that dear Miss Mackenzie is so much better, ... continue reading
My dear Miss Poole I suspected that you would have to change to Monday. I wonder if the enclosed will make any further change. We shall be very glad to have you here on Sunday, and the carriage with Miss Mackenzie in it will meet you at Bpstoke at the same time.
I suppose - as you do not say so - Miss Dyson has heard no more from Heaths Court
yours affectionately C M Yonge
... continue readingDear Madam
I am much obliged for your gift of the ‘Names on the Gates of Pearl’ - I am already a great admirer of it, and introduced it to Miss Mackenzie (the sister of the late Bishop of Zululand and editor of the Net, and she has sent it to some of her Missionary friends I will do what more I can for I am sure it ought to be known.
yours truly C M ... continue reading
My dear Miss Medhurst
It is ungrateful not to have thanked you sooner but your letter came while I was from home and I have since been working through the accumulation of things that had arisen on me
What a good photograph yours is. I am sure they are much improved since there was only a little face on the top of a great crinoline. I am afraid the Infirmaries in many places - as well as ... continue reading
My dear Christabel
Such a letter as yours is hard to answer usefully, though so far as sympathy goes I know it exactly, how distressing and humiliating it is too feel ones creatures go so far beyond one in goodness that they only condemn one to oneself, while other people take them for tokens of ones goodness and then the being religious intellectually rather than spiritually and the way in which unhappiness aggravates one’s temper, and ... continue reading
My dear Miss Butler
It is very kind of you and Mrs Butler but I believe Miss Mackenzie is likely to come to me immediately after Lownie’s visit, and as there have been some difficulties about her coming before I could not put it off again.
This is a hurried day so I must only write my thanks
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingMany, many thanks for the beautiful little miniature of a holy life. I do think the last half-century must have been a period of saints, when we think of the many blessed ones we have known. Nothing so causes me to realise the ten thousand times ten thousand in the Revelation than the ‘Bollandist Lives of Saints’ in about 150 years, having got no further than C, and those only ... continue reading
My dear Mrs Mozley, I answer your kind letter at once, without waiting till after to-morrow because I have promised to write to many then. We did feel stunned indeed all the Good Friday though we had known the day before that there was nothing else to look for, and we were (and are) most thankful that he is spared the solitude that she so much dreaded for him, that she had always wished that she ... continue reading
Dear Mr Bullock, I will try to write Abp Sancroft, and Bp Mackenzie but have you thought of asking Miss Awdry, Notton, Chippenham. She is the author of ‘An Elder Sister’ and would do Anne Mackenzie’s life excellently. She could also do well Henrietta Robertson, a grand missionary worker.
And have you thought of Mrs Macdougal who sacrificed so much-? Miss Awdry could well do all these. She edited the Gospel Missionary till lately when it ... continue reading