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[24 December ?18592]
My dear Maggie
I hope you will have a happy Christmas I daresay you have been singing already at Mamma’s doors with all the rest and I think you can begin to keep it as a very happy day.
I send you a green book with some very pretty pictures of Tom Thumb. I think you will like to see him driving his six little white mice and by and by you will be able to read his story.
I wonder when you will write a letter to me.
your affectionate godmother
Charlotte M. Yonge
215.To Elizabeth Roberts
MS Huntington Library
St John’s day [27 December] 1859
My dear Miss Roberts,
It is indeed a long time since we have had any communication, though I have been intending to write to you for more weeks past than I like to count - ever since I think, I sent Lincoln Cathedral to be put in type! Then I put it off from day to day, meaning to send you the proof, but at last the article was put in without sufficient notice for me to be able to send you the proof to correct I shall soon have to send you the amount for it. I fancied that you had told me that you were acquainted with none of the Southern Cathedrals and Chichester has therefore been done by another hand, for which I am now sorry. St Paul’s also I have been offered by Miss Goodrich, who did Canterbury, Salisbury I have half done myself, and there can be few more remaining to be described besides Exeter, which I ought to be able to describe, but I fear I cannot.3
I am indeed concerned to hear that you have had such a year of sorrow and trial - Such a sorrow too as makes one of the marked points of our life and removes one of the pillars of home to make home seem more nearly above than it often does while the home is complete on earth. I sometimes think that the single woman’s feeling for her father is the most complete of filial relations because there is the full power and maturity of mind and feeling together with the trust and dependance, that necessarily passes away in the grown up son and is otherwise directed in the married daughter.
Six years do not seem to me to have made much difference in the missing and loss, above all when last autumn I went into Devonshire, his own county, where every place was full of his delight in it.
I hope soon to hear from you again, and that you will have something more to send me. The Packet is in a very prosperous state, and has gone on doing better and better almost ever since its first start. Some time ago we had some cards given us with coloured pictures of the flowers of each month that would have been just the way to bring out your Garland, but I suspect the Black Letter and other Saints would be alarming to the weak minds of many purchasers
With all Christmas wishes yours sincerely
C M Yonge
NAME INDEX OF PERSONS
Index of persons mentioned in Charlotte Mary Yonge’s Letters 1834-1859.
CMY= Charlotte Mary Yonge
WCY= her father William Crawley Yonge
FMY= her mother Frances Mary (Bargus) Yonge
JBY= her brother Julian Bargus Yonge
Bold indicates the addressee of a letter. Unidentifiable persons mentioned only by Christian name are omitted.
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Abraham, Caroline Harriet (Palmer) (1809-1877), daughter of Sir Charles Thomas Palmer, 2nd Bt., married. (17 January 1850) the Rt. Rev. Charles John Abraham (1814-1903). She and Sarah Harriet (Richardson) Selwyn were first cousins. Excellence of her abstracts of Bishop Selwyn’s sermons, 117 (9 June 1854); 130 (22 March 1855); health, 165 (28 March ?1857); 191 (24 November 1858);
Abraham, Rt. Rev. Charles John (1814-1903), first Bishop of Wellington, New Zealand, bishop suffragan of Derby, married (1850), Mrs Selwyn’s cousin Caroline Harriet Palmer (1809-1877). 28 (14 May 1848); 191 (24 November 1858); informing Coleridge Patteson of CMY’s donations to the Melanesian Mission, 213 (21 December 1859);
Acland Troyte, Harriet Dyke (1841-1921), daughter of Arthur Henry Dyke Acland Troyte (1811-1857), married (1863) George Griffith. Thanked for contributing to Auckland bells fund, 167 (26 May 1857);
Adams, evidently a humble Devon friend of WCY, 102 (8 March 1854).
Adams, Mrs, probably a parishioner of the Rev. Richard Carter Smith in Woolwich. 183 (7 December 1857).
Agnew, Andrew (1818-1892), later Sir Andrew Agnew, 8th Bt., briefly engaged to the Hon. Jane Colborne. 20 (19 April 1845); 21 (22 July 1845);
Albert (1819-1861), Prince Consort, 82 (July 1853); 117 (9 June 1854);
Anderson Morshead, Alethea (Yonge) (28 March 1815-22 July 1863), eldest daughter of the Rev. John Yonge of Puslinch and Alethea Henrietta (Bargus) Yonge, first cousin to CMY (daughter of her mother’s half-sister and her father’s first cousin), married (1845) her second cousin the Rev. John Philip Anderson Morshead, of Widey Court. 4 (6 August 1838); 6 (25 September 1838); 7 (5 December 1838); criticisms of Abbeychurch answered, 12 (30 September 1844); 13 (21 October 1844); 17 (19 November 1844); 19 (5 January 1845); nurse for her baby, 23 (19 September 1846); 25 (30 October 1846); birth of her fifth son Ernest, 46 (13 October 1851); her children alternately dark and fair, 48 (22 October 1851); staying at Puslinch, 105 (17 March 1854); to help nurse Jane Yonge, 131 (23 March 1855); Anne Yonge to write to about Jane Colborne’s wedding, 179 (1 October 1857);
Anderson Morshead, Rev. Edmund Doidge (1849-1912), third son of Rev. John Philip Anderson Morshead and Alethea Yonge, New College, Oxford 1867-72, double first, assistant master Winchester College 1872-1904, married (1 Aug 1878) Mary, fourth sister of William Andrewes Fearon, headmaster of Winchester, died of GPI. Remarkably clever, aged three, 48 (22 October 1851);
Anderson Morshead, Ernest Garstin (b. 9 October 1851), MRCS, fifth son of the Rev. John Philip Anderson Morshead and Alethea (Yonge) Anderson Morshead. Birth, 46 (13 October 1851);
Anderson Morshead, Frank Upton (b. 1 August 1847), second son of the Rev. John Philip Anderson Morshead and Alethea (Yonge) Anderson Morshead. Born suddenly, 48 (22 October 1851)
Anderson Morshead, John Yonge (11 June 1846-1923), nephew of Anne Yonge, eldest son of the Rev. John Philip Anderson Morshead and Alethea (Yonge) Anderson Morshead. Born, 23 (19 September 1846).
Antrobus, Sir Edmund (1792-1870), 2nd. Bt.. Restoring Amesbury church before Amesbury Abbey, 67 (14 August 1852).
Archer, Fulbert (1825-1904), a cousin of the Yonges and a pupil at Winchester School. 6 (25 September 1838.
Ashington, Miss, unidentified. 12 (30 September 1844).
Atkinson, Frances Hester (Carter Smith) (1827-1908), contributor to MP, sister of Ann Carter Smith, married (1856) the Rev. Edward Atkinson (1819-1915). 157 (3 December 1856); 158 (5 December 1856); 161 (22 December 1856);
Attard, Miss, unidentified. 14 (28 October 1844);
Attwood, Mrs, domestic servant, 194 (9 March 1859);
Austen, Jane (1775-1817), novelist. 178 (1 October 1857);
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