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Tenerife, An Astronomer's Experiment, or, Specialities of a Residence Above the Clouds (London, Reeve 1858).

2 Graham Colborne and James Yonge had come to Otterbourne to attend the marriage (9 Sept 1858) of Julian Yonge to Emma Frances Walter (1839-1913). James Edmund Yonge (b. 1843) was the son of Vice-Admiral Edmund Yonge, brother of Lady Seaton and Uncle Yonge.

3 Mrs Walter was Frances’s stepmother. Lieut.-Colonel Edward Walter (1804-1862) of the 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry, had married, first, Mary Emma Coulthard and, secondly (1853) Caroline Janetta Bignell. 

4 Louisa (1840-1916) and Gertrude Walter (1849-1897) were Frances’s younger sisters.

1 The Rev. Upton Richards, Vicar of All Saints, Margaret Street. The Society of All Saints’s Sisters of the Poor was founded in his parish in 1851 and run by Harriet Brownlow Byron.

2 The Clewer sisterhood was founded in 1851 by the Rev. Thomas Thellusson Carter, and offered a refuge to prostitutes.

1 The book in question is probably the collected Conversations on the Catechism 3 vols (London: Mozley 1859-62).


2 William Gibbs (1790-1875), of Tyntesfield and his nephew Henry Hucks Gibbs (1819-1907) were both connected to CMY through the Crawley family.

1 With envelope addressed to 'Miss Matcham/ New House/ Salisbury' and postmarked Winchester 2 December 1858.

2 Caroline Heathcote had married (17 Aug 1858) Thomas Cooke-Trench (1829-1902), and they embarked on a characteristically Tractarian improvement of his estate, Millicent, in County Kildare.

3 Keenie was the nickname for the wife of Keble’s nephew the Rev. Thomas Keble, Jr., or ‘Tom Keble’.

1Arthur Moberly died in December 1858.

2 Edward Bulwer Lytton, What Will He Do With It? (Edinburgh, Blackwood 1858), a novel.

3 Frances Yonge was expecting a baby, William Coulthard Yonge (September-November 1859).

1 Ann Carter Smith, ‘Will no one do likewise?: A Tale of East London Life’ MP (March-September 1859).

2 Emily Taylor, ‘Chronicles of an Oak’ MP (July 1858-June 1859), later published as Chronicles of an Old English Oak, or, Sketches of English Life and History (1860).

1 Envelope addressed to Miss Ann Smith / Charlton Rectory/ London/ SE and postmarked Winchester 2 April 1859 and London SE 4 April 1859.

2 Sophy Kendal is a character in CMY’s novel The Young Stepmother, or, A Chronicle of Mistakes (serialized in MP 1856-60 and published 1861).

1 Smith has evidently named a character after Amabel Edmondstone, the heroine of The Heir of Redclyffe (1853), who names her own daughter Mary Verena, in allusion to La Motte Fouqué’s Sintram.

2 Parker had published Dorothy: A Tale (1856), an anonymous work by Margaret Agnes Colvile (later Paul), and, this letter implies, a series of similar works in the same format.

3 With envelope addressed to 'Smith/ Rectory/ Charlton/ London/ SW', postmarked Winchester 9 April 1859 and London 11 April 1859.

1 This letter evidently belongs in the empty envelope catalogued as MS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1859/4: an empty envelope addressed to Miss Ann Smith/ Rectory/ Old Charlton/ London/ SE and postmarked Winchester 12 April 1859 and London SE 13 April (year illegible).

1 This letter evidently belongs in the empty envelope catalogued as MS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1859/ 6 addressed to Miss Ann C Smith/ Rectory/ Old Charlton/ London/ SE and postmarked Winchester 4 June 1859.

2Envelope addressed to Miss A C Smith/ Rectory/ Old Charlton/ London/ SE and postmarked Winchester 24 June 1859 and London SE 25 June 1859. The paper has been cut to remove the signature.

1 With envelope addressed to Miss A C Smith/ Old Charlton Rectory/ London S E and postmarked Winchester 28 June and London SE 29 June 1859

2 ‘The Two Beauties of the Camberwell Assemblies, 1778’, which CMY was to return, and which was published in Once A Week in 1860.

3 Envelope addressed to Miss Ann Carter Smith/ Sutton Coldfield/ Warwickshire and postmarked Winchester 11 July 1859 and Birmingham 12 July 1859. It also contains a head and shoulders photograph of CMY in old age.

1 Frances Maria Wilbraham (d.1905), the author of The Cheshire Pilgrims, or, Sketches of Crusading Life in the Thirteenth Century (1862), which ran in MP (July 1859-1860)

2 Frances Dysart is the heroine of Will No One Do Likewise?

3A character in Hopes and Fears, an ideal English squire.

1 John Keble, The Christian Year, ‘Eleventh Sunday after Trinity’, 21-4: ‘If long and sad thy lonely hours, / And winds have rent thy sheltering bowers, / Bethink thee what thou art and where,/  A sinner in a life of care.’

2 With envelope addressed to Miss A F C Smith/ Old Charlton Rectory/ S E and postmarked Winchester 4 October and London SE 5 October 1859.

3 ‘Periodicals’ The Literary Churchman (16 Sept 1859) 344: ‘Of the Churchman’s Companion after awarding the usual meed of praise to the ‘Wynnes’, we are constrained to say that the September number is a little tame.’

1 'Sarah Tytler' [Henrietta Keddie], The Nut-Brown Maids, or, The First Hosier and his Hosen: A Family Chronicle of the Days of Queen Elizabeth (London, Parker, 1859)

2 Not Elizabeth Roberts, but the unrelated Margaret Eliza Roberts (1833-1919).

3 Margaret Roberts, The Two Mottoes (London, Parker, 1858).

1 Thomas Constable (1812–1881) began trading under his own name in 1833.

2 Dated on the assumption that the edition of 1859 is referred to.

3 The History of the Life and Death of the Good Knight Sir Tom Thumb Illustrated by J. B. Edinburgh: Constable 1859 [the first edition was 1855].

4 Envelope addressed to Miss A F C Smith/ Rectory/ Old Charlton/ SE and postmarked Winchester 8 December 1859 and London SE 9 December 1859.

5 Lindley Murray, English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners (1795) was the standard textbook for many years; later editions included sections on syntax. The prose of Joseph Addison was often recommended as a model; the best-known works by the modern authors mentioned are Hugh Miller, The Old Red Sandstone, or, New Walks in an Old Field (1841) and Arthur Helps, Friends in Council (1852).

1 Envelope addressed to Miss A C Smith/ Old Charlton Rectory/ SE and postmarked Winchester 13 December 1859 and London SE 14 December 1859.

2 Charles Abraham.

1 The place is now a suburb of Auckland called Mission Bay.

1 This building is currently (2007) occupied by the Mecca Stonehouse cafe, 44 Tamaki Drive, Mission Bay, Auckland.

1 With envelope addressed to Miss Margaret Moberly. No address on letter.

2 Dated on the assumption that it relates to the letter (28 November ?1859) from Constable & Co, and that the edition of 1859 is there referred to.

3 ‘Christ Church of Canterbury, the Mother Cathedral of England’ MP 17 (February 1859), 172-187 is signed A. M. G., which initials are those of a regular contributor. She was almost certainly the ‘Miss A. M. Goderich’ to whom there are several payments from CMY’s account, and the author of anonymous fiction which the British Library Catalogue attributes to A. M. Goodrich.



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