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47. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library, Yonge Letters. 1 Oct 18th 1851 Madam, I am much obliged by your contribution to the Monthly Packet, and should be glad to see the other numbers. I must observe however that there are some expressions that had a childish tone that I would gladly see altered such as that the loss of Lucien’s parents was very sad for him, that Hilary wrote clever books, that his Psalms are the same as ours, that a priest is a clergyman &c. Alban Butler also says that Prisca was a virgin martyr at Rome in the 3d century and that her name is connected with that of Aquila’s wife only because there is a tradition that the Church dedicated to her at Rome is built on the site of the House of Aquila.2 Sts Aquila & Priscilla are commemorated together by the Greek church on the 14th of July. I like your plan very much and if you are kind enough to let me have the rest of the papers before the end of next month, I should like to commence them with the New Year, but I find it a good rule not to commence a series without seeing the whole of it I remain Yours &c The Editor of the Monthly Packet 48. To Anne YongeMS West Devon Record Office Acc 1092/7 Otterbourn Oct 22d [18513] My dear Anne Many thanks for the further particulars of Tern, I am glad they are allowed to be Arctic. Alethea’s children seem chequered in and out, brown and fair instead of being divided into boy and girl, how very amusing the others must be, I think Edmund must be remarkably clever to be doing lessons, and joining so much in the play of the others.1 Alethea Mackarness’s daughter came as unexpectedly as Frank did, she had no nurse, but Anne Coleridge was staying there, and the old school mistress came to help, the nurse did not come till the little thing was 3 hours old, but all is going on very well. 2 One of Julian’s long letters was only from a tailor, the other was the real one, as perhaps you have seen his name by this time, so there is he, an officer. Greener on the Gun is Papa’s and he will be obliged to you to keep it for an opportunity. 3 Julian is very sorry you have had so much trouble about the Shag, he meant the Sun to have done all the work. They say that corrosive sublimate was never meant to come into contact with flesh, and that dry pepper would have been the thing to use, but he does not care in the least about it. Papa sends 6 queens4 for the repayment of those which conveyed the brooch, what a beauty it is, but I have not been able to wear it yet, having been in mourning. Mrs Moore keeps on talking of your letter, she was so much pleased with it. You or Alethea or Jane should manage to see the few last nos of Chambers Edinburgh journal there is such a nice series of papers about the flowers at Budleigh Salterton, descriptions of the Otter &c, they are called Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers, and much surprised me by the familiar names. Mrs Moore goes on Monday, it has been a very short visit. You will be glad to get Mary and Frances back again and to settle in for the winter. Can you find for me the verses that begin ‘Rock of ages, cleft for me.’5 Mamma has been walking all along the Cretan Labyrinth at Cranbury today, & does not seem tired. It was so beautiful, such a day of calm decay, so very still, and each elm branch tipped with a gold leaf Our new underling at school does very well. One of the girls here is going to live with an aunt married to ‘the Visionary Surgeon of the Life Guards’ It is Guy that I have just finished but I dont know when he will come out your most affect CMY
49. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters. Novr 13th [1851] Madam, I return my best thanks for your pretty papers on Flowers. I should prefer giving them the title of “A Garland for the Year” instead of that of “Holy Flowers” as it is just possible that someone might take offence at the latter.1 I should wish also to omit the last sentence of the 25th March, in which you say that the festival is observed with great solemnity in all Catholic countries, but in ours chiefly noticed as Quarter Day. It is unfortunately quite true, that there is something in the expression that seems to exclude this from being a Catholic country. The subject of the Flowers appropriate to Saints is one in which I have taken much interest, though I never was able to gather so much information as you have brought together. However as you say you are on the watch for other Saints’ Flowers, I will mention one or two that have occurred to me, and which I missed amongst your. Is not the Rose sacred to St Elizabeth of Hungary? St Patrick’s shamrock, and three more of the Bleessed Virgin’s flowers I also missed, the clematis, the Lady’s Smock, the Lady’s bedstraw, to which I suppose I may add the Lady’s Tresses. I have heard too that the Columbine is dedicated to the Seven Sleepers, and it occurs in the calendar in Queen Mary Tudor’s Prayer book in the British Museum, but I cannot tell on what day. I observe too that you have not noticed the little Lotus Corniculatus, and I am sure that there must [be] some legend connected with it, as the trivial name in some places is ‘Lady’s Fingers’ and one country girl said she had heard it called ‘GOD ALMIGHTY’S Fingers.’2 I believe that it is in some way connected with the Resurrection, probably through the old heathen notion that the Lotus conferred immortality, of which it must thus have become an emblem. Last year in the British Institution there was a picture by Titian of the supper at Emmaus, where some black pods were represented on the table, and a lady who had been a good deal abroad told me that these were Lotoses, [sic] and that they frequently occurred in pictures representing scenes after the Resurrection.3 Herb Trinity and the Wood Sorrel both belong to Trinity Sunday. I will return the Stories on the Calendar in a day or two, but I am at present from home, and have not access to my hoard of mss. I am inclined to think it best not to avail myself of them. With many thanks Yours sincerely The Editor of the M P.
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