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Dear Miss Medhurst I like your New Year’s Eve poem, but I ought to have had it long ago.
If you have not disposed of it otherwise, will you send it to me next October for December of 1873.
I believe Mrs Mercier has put a little pupil of mine under your care as member of the Guild Emmeline Spratt. She is a really good girl I believe, and very affectionate but I should not wonder if ... continue reading
Dear Miss Medhurst Thank you for your kindness to Emmeline, she is an affectionate girl and has a refinement about her that makes her pleasant to have to do with. Her brother with whom she lives was one of the College choristers at Winchester and had a good education there, so I hope she is in good hands, but a little notice and sympathy will be a great help in the great plunge it must ... continue reading
My dear Miss Medhurst I did hope to have put in this sonnet of yours in time for Ascension day, but I could not manage it, so I can only send you the proof and thank you for your kindness to Emmeline Spratt, who after her visit to you wrote the happiest letter she had written at all since leaving home
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingDear Miss Medhurst, Thanks for your poem. You will probably be here on Saturday in time for am [sic] morning service, which is at ten o’clock.
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Miss Medhurst Thanks for your verses which no doubt will please many, though I have never set foot in Brighton and so have no knowledge of the place. I never thanked you for the good news of Mrs Mercier who I hope is quite well again
Yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingMy 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 Miss Medhurst
I believe Emmelines engagement is an excellent one in every way except for the unfortunate matter of the man being a dissenter
He seems to be a very good man, a clerk, and of a station rather above, much given to good works. He has had to provide for a large family of brothers and sisters and is waiting to marry till they are off his hands. I don’t think one can object, ... continue reading
Dear Miss Medhurst,
Thank you for your kindness to Emmeline. I believe she is coming down here for a month to recruit if her brother can spare her. I hope it is only want of love, but her aunt is anxious because loss of voice was the beginning of illness with another aunt - a school mistress - who went into a decline and the thought of whom prevented us from pressing Emmeline to be ... continue reading
Dear Miss Medhurst
Many thanks for your little books.
I dare say you will go on and prosper
Yours truly C M Yonge
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