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- 85. To Messrs Forbes and Marshall
- 86.To Anne Yonge
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84. To Anne YongeMS fragment West Devon Record Office Acc No 308: 1853/3 [late 1853?] enjoyed his two visits very much, though after all he missed Johnny Colborne. Have you had to talk to your princes, it is very funny to think how little we should have believed it if seven years ago we had been told they would be coursing at Puslinch.1 John Coleridge spent half Sunday here, and brought the American magazine with the account of the clergyman who is said to be Louis XVII, it is very curious and really when you read it, vraisemblable, it is franked by his Bishop who says he is a most hard working excellent clergyman. He had quite lost his memory and had not the least notion who he was till the Prince de Joinville told him. We were at Winchester yesterday, and Jane Wither shewed us a nugget of gold that had been sent her by some emigrants she helped out to Australia. It weighed ½ oz, was worth 30/- and looked like the inside of a walnut gilded. Poor Catherine’s history sounds like a story on the consequences of seeking fine places. Her mistress fills one with such indignation that I am ready to write a Packet article against selfishness. Mary Moberly told me her birthday was the same as Guy’s so there is another like yours.2 I have no time for more your affectionate cousin CMY
MS Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin [1853?] Miss Yonge requests Messrs Forbes and Marshall to send for Mrs E Barrett Browning’s poems3 Rollo and his race4 The Provocations of Mde Palissy1
Decr 14th [1853] My dear Anne I was very busy yesterday or I should have thanked you for your two notes, I thought it was a long time since we had heard from Deer Park, and had written to Cordelia2 the same day I wrote that scramble to you, though without any notion that there was anything the matter, I wonder whether Edmund had at all over done the cold water system, one is so very sorry to think of the good that he gained at Malvern being undone. I hope Cordelia’s London doctor may do as much for her as Mrs Wilson’s3 has done for her. I have not known her so well since Francis was born, she comes out for long drives in the rain, and drives through the flood, and goes about her house like other people. We are just come home from Hursley, whither we found the lower road shocking, most places covered with water, others ploughed up by the torrents, another mended like a corduroy road in America, with faggots, and another such mud! So we came home by the upper road & Cranbury where we met Miss Chamberlayne driving her white pony ‘O’ she said ‘we have had such mud!’ ‘So have we in the lower road’ ‘That’s just where we have been’ ‘That’s the reason we came this way’ ‘O dear! we saw your carriage in Hursley, and little thought why you took this way!’ We are to dine at Cranbury on Friday. Julian seems to be pretty well again, he is going to spend a week with one of his brother officers in Bedfordshire, and is coming home about New Year’s day. Papa has brought home Mary’s letter for which Mamma thanks her, she will write to her tomorrow she hopes. I wonder how Uncle Yonge and John will like their party at Kitley, what a sociable person that Duchess must be.4 One would think of the poor little Duc de Chartres being lost in the revolution when one saw him.5 I should have thought that she being a German ought to talk English as well as French, I know a funny little German governess who talks a most funny patois of all three, helping herself our with her spirited manner. It was most funny to hear her describe her home Christmas tree. I want to say more but it is almost post time & I have got the packet to do up. St Stephen’s School is written by a lady in New Zealand.6 your most affectionate CMY
MS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters Otterbourn Decr 31st [1853] Dear Miss Roberts, I enclose the letter which I received from Mr Neale this morning. Perhaps it will be the best way for you to answer his question about the Latin yourself. His address is at Sackville College, East Grinstead, and I hope the researches in the book whose name I cannot read may prove successful. By the by, I find that the children here call the little blue prunella Lady’s slippers, whether from any connection between shoes and prunella, I do not know.1 Trivial village names are apt to be so very dull and incorrect as to destroy all one’s romance about them. I hope among the traditions you will mention that of quivering aspen, and of the stain on the robin’s breast. The only other so to speak consecrated creatures I can think of are St James’ cockle shell, and the fish of St Peter, which we have corrupted from joinitore into John Dory. It is odd that whereas the palmer’s shell of old times was certainly the escallop, what is now brought from the Holy Land seems to me a pearl oyster, I suppose it was adopted from its susceptibility of carving. Thank you for the Dark Angel, I am afraid he will not quite suit the Packet, I am hoping to put in your other verses that I have kept so very long, but first I must put in some sent me from New Zealand, on the ordination of the first native deacon, a man who has lived in the Bishop’s house ever since the Bishop’s arrival in the islands.2 Thank you for what you sent about the Heir of Redclyffe. It is always a pleasure to hear of people liking the book, because ever since a dear friend told me to write a story to the character of the hero, Guy and Amy have been constant companions of my thoughts, till they seem like live friends. I hope you have had a satisfactory answer from Mr Mozley, I shall be very glad to hear of the flowers being in a way of appearing and flourishing. I must also thank you for your kind Christmas wishes and return them for the New Year. My Christmas day was spent over the fire with a swelled face, and to my sorrow this is the first day I have seen the holly decked church, but I am very glad to be released for the last half of Christmas Yours sincerely C M Yonge Directory: 337 337 -> Your Name Period Date Chapter 24 Earth Science Word Study Movements of the Ocean 337 -> 3 Cheyne Street 337 -> Georgia Department of Human Services Alcohol/Drug Screening Services Solicitation No: 42700-040-dhs0000205 Cost Proposal Worksheet Metro Area – 337 -> Earth Science Chapter 9 – a view of Earth’s Past Section 3 – The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Eras 337 -> Press release alitalia / sea – Aeroporti di Milano 337 -> The Carleton Clinic Cumbria Partnership nhs foundation Trust 337 -> Earth Science Chapter 21 Section 1 Ocean Currents 337 -> Senate, No. 3375 state of new jersey 217th legislature Download 1.33 Mb. Share with your friends:
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