Edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske

152.To Anna Butler

June 23d [1856]

Many thanks for Chapter XV which is very lively and promising, and in itself is all that the Packet could wish, though of course I know it is but a single brick of the house which you have not yet built. It amused us exceedingly, and your writing is so easy to read that it is as pleasant as having a chapter of some printed book sent to us. Shall I return it, or keep it for a continuation? I get such an amount of murmurs at only half the Daisy Chain being in the Packet that I dont know what people will say to being served in the same way again.¹ On the whole too, I think the Packet has grown older and more grown up than when it began. But we shall judge better in time, when your plan is complete, and in the mean time, there is no hurry, as we could not have the continuation before this time next year, which sounds so far off to anything but Packet plans that perhaps you would not care to wait.

C M Yonge

153.To Anna Butler

MS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/9
[March-October 1856?¹]
My dear Miss Butler

I must thank you for the motto, I have a certain liking for Götz partly for Sir W Scott’s sake² I believe omission /or rather deferring\ is better than mincing after all, but it is hard to manage to fit all into 80 pages, where the grave, the useful and the gay must each have a fair share, and the dull gets put off & put off till our deferred correspondent sends a piteous entreaty being rabid beneath and MS swells up in print beyond reckoning. I must ask Mr Mozley if he can set up the rest of Likes & Dislikes without too much havoc in his types, for it inconveniences him to have too many absorbed. Did you ever pronounce the cz sounds in Polish and are they as bad to speak as to spell.

When you have no other motto you might take Southey about

A terrible man with a terrible name

A name that by sight you know very well

But no one can speak

& no one can spell.³
I congratulate you on your Scandinavian book.⁴
yours sincerely

C M Yonge

154.To Anna Butler

MS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/10
Otterbourn

July 11th [1856]

My dear Miss Butler

I was going to return this long ago, but I wanted to hear from Mr Mozley whether he could conveniently print the remaining chapters to the end, and he has vouchsafed me no answer, so I mean to wait long enough to give him time to set his types free of the forthcoming number, and then send the whole with a request to have it done at once. I had been making a great dash at finishing Long long ago in the present number and for that reason had been obliged to put off the Likes, cruel as it was to leave them all tumbled out in the road; but I thought you preferred being put off to being minced fine. ⁵

You will see that I could not have shortened the Long long ago without leaving it in a state alarming to the weak minds of the Mamma’s¹
yours sincerely

C M Yonge

155.To Anna Butler

MS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/11
Otterbourn

Sept 29th [1856]

My dear Miss Butler

Mr Mozley shall have a jog, but I think the time you fix is nearly the natural one. There will be rather a crowd in the December number as I had to put off a long beautiful story till I could get it in whole, and those old notes on Roumelia must be finished off with the year, so I am afraid of more than a note on the Ursulines² (What a clever sketch that is in the letter) I hope it will turn out that the Germans keep the old rule, for a contradiction is so apt to spoil the air of reality in a story. Perhaps we might have an Ursuline paper by and by, but Decr is preoccupied. I am glad of the future hopes. I was interrupted here, and am not sure what I was going to say.

yours sincerely

C M Yonge

156.To Anne Sturges Bourne

MS Hampshire Record Office 9M55F55/4/1³
Dogmersfield

Nov 4th [1856?]

My dear Miss Bourne

To answer while the observations are fresh. 1. Lord Ormersfield was meant to be courteous & respectful with his aunt, but undemonstrative, and I cannot fancy him saying ‘Aunt’ - though he would talk of my aunt.

2. Mrs Frost was a woman who went by feeling, and only disposed to work for her son, & bask in his presence.
3. Louisa’s health was so broken that no one expected her to survive her confinement. I wanted to make all this past sketchy, and thought specifying would run to lengthiness.
4. Jem knew as little as Louis of minutiae of the speculations, and all Louis says was gently said, and misplaced partly because a man who talks so much must often talk amiss. Things were a real pain and grief to him, & his father’s coldness made him not know that what he said was felt. Of course it was meant to be wrong, but the meek quiet manner was not brow beating. 5. Lord O was married two years - his father and mother were then alive. Mary first saw Louisa in London, M then with Mr P, afterwards she was at Ormersfield, he gone on some mission, when she nursed Louisa. I meant the old people to live in the country, the young ones to come down to them, but of course as she hated it, and he was in office that would not come to much. As to the spelling, I must have been under a delusion.
6. I don’t think women like Mrs Frost whose heart has always been in boys do enter much into girls’ habits, I don’t think she quite knew when Clara was not to be treated like a boy, and Jem’s restlessness about it made her petting propensity protect Clara from his restrictions. I think delicacy & unsuspicion hindered her from fears of Clara being attached to Louis, I always meant her forte to be heart, & not judgement. I will look at all the ambiguities. I daresay shortening has left plenty.
5th. Your further note is come. I think the Clara part is all settled by that former observation that Mrs Frost was not as wise as kind, and Clara would not take to Mary. It was the one unworthy spot in Lord O, warned by his own misfortunes, to wish his son to marry for happiness, and Mary had connections and fortune enough to make it not too heroic - in fact that was the heart’s core of the story.
Tom was to blame, for he broke off doing the steps out of affront with Jem’s fault finding - and Charlotte received no message to deliver only a confidence.
I send the end. I believe the law is all wrong, and Isabel is not enough made out at her first appearance. M A is writing, so I need say no more but thank you. I think what has no real magnanimity made a great impression on Tom
Yours sincerely

C M Yonge

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