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57. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters Otterbourn May 13th [1852] Dear Madam, I send the proof of your very pretty June garland. I am sorry that by some mistake of mine, May 25th was omitted in its right month. I suppose it was from its following Whitsunday. Do not you think that as Trinity Sunday is a moveable feast, it might be better to give that title instead of June 6th to the paper on the Hearts Ease? I suppose that the Dianthus Deltoides ought properly to be considered as a garden flower, but it is said by Withering to grow wild in Scotland, and he gives its English name as Maiden Pink. Should you object to alter the expression that St Norbert was converted? I think that it is better to use that form of speech only for conversions from heathenism. Yours sincerely C M Yonge 58. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters to Elizabeth Roberts Otterbourn May 15th [1852] Dear Madam I return the Stories on the Calendar, which you so bravely speak of rewriting. After all, I feel myself that that is a much more comfortable plan than patching, one spoils the new to make it suit the old, and then the old looks ill by the side of the new. Thank you for so kindly receiving my criticisms, and I hope you will not hurry yourself, as one chapter on the first of the month before it comes out, is all that I wish for. One thing I forgot to mention, and that is that surely it should be mentioned that divines do not all identify Mary Magdalene with the sinner. There is much on the subject in Mr Isaac Williams books on the Gospels. I suppose you know Mrs Jamieson’s [sic] books on Sacred and Legendary Art, though no authorities, they bring information pleasantly together.1 I am glad to have so agreeable a prospect for next year as Margaret with her mind more developed Yours sincerely C M Yonge A Lady told me the other day, the Garland was one of the first things she looked for in the Packet. 59. To the Reverend Dr. George MoberlyMS location unknown. Printed in Dulce Domum, 98. Ascension Day [20 May], 1852. My dear Dr. Moberly, Of all days in the year this is one that I should specially have chosen for receiving the note Mamma sent on this morning.2 Indeed I do thank you and Mrs. Moberly very much for giving me a Pearl to think of every day. How I shall look forward to the christening day and to having a possession of my own in your house! I wonder what you will think of my venturing, since you said nothing about a second name, to say how much I should like, if you have not no other view, for her to be Margaret Helen; though, as it is for the sake of nothing but some fancies of my own, it does not deserve to be twice thought about, and I hope you will forgive my mentioning it. I am very glad to hear such a comfortable account of Mrs. Moberly. I am sure this is weather to recover in and Daisies to thrive in. 60. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters Otterbourn June 4th [1852] My dear Madam We have had friends staying with us, and have been a good deal employed in shewing as much of our Cathedral &c as could be visited in two or three days, or else I should sooner have thanked you for the very pretty poem, which I received on Sunday morning. I like it very much, and will insert it as soon as I have space, I have not had so much German yet as to be afraid of putting in more, but do you not think that an over quantity of German stories and poems often spoils a magazine? I was just about to send for a post office order for the amount of your quarter’s contribution, when I recollected that as you are not at Carlisle at present, it might not be convenient to you to have an order on that post office, and probably Botcherby does not pay money orders, so I will wait till I hear from you again before I send one. I heard a report a little while ago of a proposed restoration of Carlisle Cathedral, I hope there is some truth in it, for I was much dismayed at its naveless condition when I saw it three or four years ago, in the course of an expedition to the Lakes.1 It is amusing to see how papers on flowers betray the locality of their author, your mention of the gold & purple blossoms of the hearts ease2 reminds me how we southern people marvelled at the beautiful large wild hearts ease on the sides of the rail way, whereas in our country, the wild ones are little cream coloured things, no larger than a violet and only in the richest soils with a shade of blue in the upper petals. Such as they were how ever we had a great love for them, and I suppose they were such as Shakespeare knew as ‘milk white.’3 I have troubled you with a long gossiping note, but these subjects are so interesting I never know how to leave them Yours sincerely C M Yonge 61. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters Otterbourn June 10th [1852] My dear Madam, I think there would be time for the two flowers if you have them ready, and like to send them at once to Derby. I will write and tell Mr Mozley about them, in case you should like to do this. I was much delighted with the account of the Peacemaker, St Elizabeth of Portugal, in Miss Kavanagh’s Women of Christianity, and I am glad that she has so pretty a flower as the Evening Primrose. As to the bright little Centaury, everyone must be glad to hear of it.1 One of my cousins asked the other day if I knew anything of the Anthericum Liliago, St Bruno’s flower, which she said was pretty, and had a bulbous root, but I cannot find anything about it from my books. Thank you for the translation, it is certainly a very beautiful passage. Should you object to my introducing it in one of my Conversations on the Catechism. Miss Ormesden might give it to the girls to read, and I think it would come in very suitably with my next subject ‘Death and Burial,’ which I suppose will come out on the 1st August. I meant to make ‘Death and Sleep’ follow the conversation, as the ‘Olive Garden’ does the former one, for your papers have a curious way of coming in à propos to mine. I sometimes wish I had called those conversations in Illustration of the Catechism, which I think would express their object better. I hope to be able to get a Post Office order on Saturday, but we are four miles from Winchester and I cannot always send. I am afraid what you say of your Bishop is to be said of too many, it is a very difficult thing to know how to feel about those who are over us.2 Here, though all is not exactly as we could wish in that respect, we are so happy in our neighbouring clergymen as to have little occasion for any thing but thankfulness.3 You would have been interested by the sight of the Whitsuntide adornings of a Church near us, all white flowers, except here and there a red peony. Lilies of the valley at the east, and more towards the west, white broom with laurel leaves, which had a beautiful effect, even when I saw it on Whit Tuesday when it was much faded. With many thanks Yours sincerely C M Yonge
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