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146.To Anna ButlerMS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/5 Otterbourn Jany 28th [1856?] My dear Miss Butler I am sorry to say that on reading your last chapter we were obliged to pronounce it rather too political.3 I am afraid you will think us very heartless, but we could not keep up our interest, and it does not come in like a girl’s narration either. Is not kissing pale lips rather conventional? It struck us too as somewhat confused about the beginning. Your sketch of the two girls and their arrival &c was capital, and I have little doubt that Emily’s introduction to Aunt Theresa will be very good for her, but could you not be kind enough to curtail Honorine’s narrative merely to home events, taking it for granted that the other matters are understood. Perhaps you will be angry with me for not having any Polish enthusiasm. I know the original injustice was monstrous, but the way out of it is too difficult and doubtful a question for the Monthly Packet, & entering on the Revolution leads Likes & Dislikes out of its original course. I am very sorry, after you have been reading it up, but I hope you will be as kind as you were about the Glacier theory. Thank you for the trouble you have taken about Gruntwig, I daresay I spelt his name wrong.4 All I know of him was from Howitt’s Scandinavian Literature5, which I have not by me, & only left me an impression of a grunting name; & he is also mentioned in a note of Mr Newland’s Forest Life.6 I dare say I have made errors which give me no right to laugh at the Heir of Redclyffe issuing from Constantinople, or at Mde de Stael’s beautiful combination of the two Sydney Smith’s into one grand Pretre Amiral.1 My mother and I diligently read 50 pages of Macaulay every night, in a state of mind amused, incredulous and indignant, but on the whole enjoying our readings.2 I do not know whether Elizabeth Barnett’s melancholy watching is over.3 I hope she will not be called on for more exertion than she has strength for. yours sincerely C M Yonge 147.To an Unknown ManMS NLS 966 ff. 373-4 Otterbourne Febry 11th [18564] Sir I waited until I should have received the photographs to thank you for them. Most of them are beautiful impressions, that of the Hen and Chickens is superior to the copy in my possession, and I am extremely obliged for the kind manner in which you have sent them5 your obt servt C M Yonge 148.To Anna ButlerMS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/6 Otterbourn Febry 11th [1856] My dear Miss Butler Many thanks for your last kind letter which I fear you will not think I requite well with halving the present chapter, but it is an unusually long one, and has a good resting place in it, and I am anxious to put in a whole paper on the Colyseum,1 which has much interest in it. I have no doubt you will manage to make Aunt Theresa satisfactorily personal and not political. When people agree to differ, where there is fair room for amicable differences they do well enough. I know that sense of translating, I had it in doing Kenneth, all Effie’s speeches came naturally in French. Your German and Polish correspondence must be most curious, I should much like hearing it but my German has glided out of my head to a great degree, and I have quite forgotten how to read that wondrous German MS. yours sincerely C M Yonge Ein unnütz Leben ist ein früher Tod2 Iphigenie 149.To Jemima BlackburnMS University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign: Letter 8. Otterbourn March 17th [1856] My dear Mrs Blackburn, I condole with you on the loss of your chicken and hope the other will not follow it at the critical moment of putting out the wing feathers. I am afraid the Empress has no such good amusement, and probably the Imperial prince is much too grand a personage for her to be allowed to touch him.3 I never read anything more absurd than the account of his 144 garments of every description. I wonder whether he will really be kept in white and blue till seven years old. I hope you have your Daisy Chain which I desired to be sent to you, but young Mr Parker being abroad, and his father having the gout, I don’t feel as sure as usual of such things being attended to. If you have not received it, I will send you one, it is a great big book, and I think you will like Harry and the Doctor, but you will find more sick folk than you approve. Don’t you think there are two sorts of girls by nature as well as by art - boy-girls, and girl-girls - the boy-girls shouting, tearing frocks, hating needles, and being ultra boys till such time as the feminine instinct begins, the girl-girls always being thorough women in gentle tastes. I don’t think education makes the two natures transferable, though it comes to much the same in the end; As it does with boys - whom I have generally seen more timid than girls though more blustering, when small. Indeed I have only met with one boy under 9 who was not an arrant coward at heart, which has persuaded me that courage is chiefly strength in boys, while in girls, I believe much is a latent consciousness that womanhood is a protection at least from anger. I never told you how much I like Dorothy, there is something very live about her, and Lance is very good as much as there is of him.1 I don’t think the Colonel could have married her at his own gate; but it is a pretty bright book. I hope you are out in the world again - how lucky you are to have been laid up now rather than in an available time of year. How does the Palissy pottery get on? Yours sincerely C M Yonge 150.To Ann Maria Carter SmithMS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1856/1 Otterbourn April 2nd [1856] Madam, I delayed to thank you for your M S, till I had had time to read it. It is a very well told story, and I shall have great pleasure in inserting it in an early number of the ensuing volume, either in July or August. The only criticism I should make, is that the boys are rather too old, even at that date, for a schoolroom tea, especially Johnnie, if he had already been to Otaheite. Allow me to add that Lucy and Christian have been universally liked, and I have been many times asked whether there were any foundation of truth for the story2 With many thanks yours sincerely C M Yonge
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