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Dear Mrs Mercier As Madame Melon says SHE has not written to you I enclose her note that you may see how the matter stands. I hope she will have a satisfactory answer about the Grand Bienfacteur
Yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Mrs Mercier Here is that charming little story at last.
One thing might I ask? Could not poor Maria’s one note of admiration be changed from Lor! I have rather the feeling that it is an abridgement of a more sacred word.
Did you mean Marian to blunder about feeding cows and milking chickens - ? Also did you send me a capital paper about fashion?
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingMadam, I send you herewith the payment for the first half of your pretty story of Campanella which I think greatly liked by all the readers of the Monthly Packet
Yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Mrs Mercier, Your recollections of Mr Peabody are very touching, and I hope they will appear in February - January is pretty well done for! I am sorry for the blunder about Christabel, it came of lending the book and trusting to memory
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Mrs Mercier I tried to get your questions answered by sending them to Miss Bramston, the Dean’s daughter, but unluckily female education at Winchester received a blow when Mr & Mrs Awdry went to Hurstpierpoint - and Mrs Johns, the only other lady who really cared, fell ill. The getting lecturers down needs some energy and there is no one to do it now.
I send you Miss Bramston’s note and that from [[person:1902]Mrs ... continue reading
My dear Mrs Mercier I never did get any thing from translators of my writings, though once or twice I have had offers - they never came to anything
One has the power to refuse for a year after publication - not after - but I imagine there is not much to be gained by so doing - and that the translators are generally too poor to make any payments, but the best way might be in ... continue reading
Dear Mrs Mercier, I enclose a cheque for the remainder of Campanella and send at the same time a proof of Mr Peabody, hoping you will not sacrifice the modest request which seems to me too good to be lost.
Thank you for Miss Tucker’s address I hope she has heard from Mr Warne by this time
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
Lady Betty is an admirable story
... continue readingMy dear Christabel Good luck to you in your new work! I had various things to write to you about Will you send a list of the Goslings to
Miss Margaret Macmillan The Elms Streatham Tooting
I think I told you I have promised to make her a Gosling though she is rather too young. Who is the next to ask questions - will you send her a reminder to send them to me to choose from, and ... continue reading
My dear Christabel Your Face seems to me very effective, I long to hear more of it. I suppose it will not be like the Face story I heard of, which has a terrible ending. I hope you will go on and get me out of the eerieness it gives me. Thanks for the promise of Handley Mills [sic], I shall be so glad of it, for poor Gertrude’s reading, she is so ... continue reading
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
My 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 Mrs Mercier
Here is that charming little story at last.
One thing might I ask? Could not poor Maria’s one note of admiration be changed from Lor! I have rather the feeling that it is an abridgement of a more sacred word.
Did you mean Marian to blunder about feeding cows and milking chickens - ? Also did you send me a capital paper about fashion?
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue reading