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157.To Ann Maria Carter SmithMS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1856/2. Otterbourn Decr 3d [1856] Dear Madam, I cannot deny myself the pleasure of writing to tell you how much your Thorns and Roses have already elicited of admiration. 1 One of my best contributors (the School Sketches) has written this morning ‘you must let me say how much charmed I & all here are with the beautiful tale, Thorns &c2 Is it a secret absolutely whose authorship it is, or is it permissible to ask whether it is by a young writer untried before. If so, we may hope for much more.’ I did not give up your secret, but I am sure you will not dislike reading the enquiry. I heard too this morning that our neighbour, a distinguished M. P. sat up to finish it, and was greatly please with it. I am hoping soon to begin Wishop Rectory. Meantime I shall have the pleasure of sending you £6 for your three papers inserted this year - and Miss Frances Smith £2.. 2.. 6. Perhaps it would save trouble if I were to include both in one cheque, but I will wait to hear from you or from her. With my best thanks to both - and hopes for future hope of the same valuable kind yours truly C M Yonge 158.To Ann Maria Carter SmithMS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1856/33 Otterbourn Decr 5th [1856] My dear Madam I enclose a draft for 8.12. 6. with many thanks both to you and your sister. I was not aware of her marriage, so that congratulations would now lag sadly behind.4 My School Sketches friend Miss Emily Taylor5, the author of that pretty little book ‘the Boy and the Birds’ is the person so anxious to know your name; she is - as perhaps you know - actively engaged in many London charities and though some of her family are otherwise seems a thorough Churchwoman herself. But perhaps you know more of her than I do, and you must not suppose I am urging anything on you, for I should never dare do so, especially where both parties are only known to me by letter, but I thought it would be unfair to both not to speak6 of her wish, as she mentioned it again in a letter which I received this morning. I am very glad of the hope you hold out of future tales yours truly C M Yonge 159.To Ann Maria Carter SmithMS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1856/41 Otterbourn Decr 9th [1856] My dear Madam When I wrote my first letter, I must have been under some hallucination that 52 shillings was £2 2. instead of £2.12. but I am glad the mistake was there instead of in the cheque. Your pretty Household Record2 came safely this morning, and I have read nearly to the end with much pleasure. I think I like it better than Wishop though not quite so well as the Thorns and Roses. Its charm is the seeming so very like life from the quietness and simplicity. I hope Wishop will begin in April or March, but I cannot yet make quite sure. The Copyright of all is your own, with our small pay. I am sure it would not be sufficient to buy the copyright, and I hope some day, your tales may make a pretty volume. Thanks for the permission to reveal the authorship to Miss Emily Taylor. I have no doubt it will be safe with her. I do not know whether I let you to suppose that I prefer short tales to longer ones. I do not think that is the case, it only happened that the shorter one fitted the last number of the year better. I never could write a short story myself, and so have perhaps the more respect for the art of getting much into brief space yours truly C M Yonge 160.To Anna ButlerMS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/12 Otterbourn Decr 15th [1856] My dear Miss Butler I enclose with the Packet’s warm thanks the pay for Likes & Dislikes. I am so glad to think of the continuation for I think the notion of setting Emily to tame young ladies running to seed an excellent one. Miss Sturges Bourne has just been conducting a sick cousin to Wiesbaden, and thinking with much diversion of Helen. She was near going to Marienbad itself which would have been amusing. I hope Lizzie Barnett has been gaining all sorts of strength at St Leonards. yours sincerely C M Yonge 161.To Ann Maria Carter SmithMS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1856/51 Otterbourn Decr 22d [1856] My dear Madam Many thanks for Wishop, which looks much improved by the omissions. The M P was Sir William Heathcote MP for Oxford, perhaps you will even better like to hear that Mr Keble could not help listening to the Thorns and Roses with great interest in the middle of his work. I have put out the beginning of Wishop for March, but I cannot make sure of it, as there is a short story which must come in in Lent, and I cannot tell what room there may be. Will you be kind enough to convey my thanks to your sister for the note and proof received this morning. It is hardly worth while to trouble her with a note merely to express my thanks. yours truly C M Yonge I forgot to add my thanks for the return of the postage stamps.
Jan 24th [1857] My dear Mrs Blackburn, The price of the binding was /6½ per volume, as that blue is an expensive cloth, and the binding of an illustrated book is always more expensive, because the plates have to be sewn in separately. I must say that I have a suspicion that you had divided the sum total by 1000 instead of 2150, for certainly 1/4 would have been almost enough to bind a quarto. The paper is included in the £64, as well as the printer’s journey in search of it, indeed Parker was quite surprised at the printing being done so cheaply. I have not heard any more as to how it is going off. I will let you know when I do. You ask what I am thinking about Queen Eleanor and that his horse was quite clumsy.1 I believe the great chargers were so in reality, but surely they had few slender palfreys. This was too early for Arabs.2 But after the Crusades I think they had some Spanish barbs. If you read the Lances, I think you will consider that Brigliador must have been a barb. I should be very sorry to part company, if I ever do bring out a book in the same style, and that I think must be determined by the aspect of affairs in the summer, and partly by your feelings too. By the by, I have been looking lately at Mrs Bayle’s,3 which I certainly do not in general think so successful as yours, and for the heads, I think hers are larger still in the summer in the country. That pretty one of Lady Dalmeny’s I only saw once, that is if hers is the clever illustration of “my lady loves her will”.4 I fancy your idea of me is not much like the reality. I never had a horse, and was by no means happy last time I was on the back of one to go up Skiddaw. My hunter and soldier temper is only sympathy with my father & brother who both have it keenly. I am personally a great coward and not at all enterprising, I was as a girl rather wild and scrambling, but it went off, I fancy from leading a quiet life, and in those things I am older at 30 than my cousins, though in love of fun and play rather younger. Marian5 has a likeness but not me Elizth in Abbeychurch, Lilias, and Ethel in the Daisy Chain,6 though I beg to observe that I am not such an eccentric looking mortal as she was. I am glad you like the Columbus sketch. I was so much delighted with him when I got to know him and so provoked with the stupid books that made one think he had no glory but perseverance instead of the true beauty of his character. I do not think you will be satisfied with what I did with the White Hoods. I never could care for revolutionists of any sort, the only ones I do like at all were the Florentines for the sake of Nicolo de Lapi.7 I wish you would read him, there is a translation of him now, I am quite sure dear old Fanfulla would instantly become a prime hero of yours, I long to hear how you would gloat over him 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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