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65. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters [summer 1852?1] Otterbourn My dear Madam, Thank you for writing to notify me of your change of place. I did send some proofs to you at Helmington Hall2 on Friday, I dare say you have received them by this time, but I thought it better to send you notice in case you had not had them. I have never been in the beautiful parts of Derbyshire, but I have heard enough of them to be sure that you must be enjoying your tour extremely Yours sincerely C M Yonge 66. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters Otterbourn Aug 9th [1852] My dear Madam, Thank you very much for your interesting account of your expedition, I am sure you must have enjoyed it very much, and brought home a great many recollections which after all are the best part of pleasure, they last so much longer than it does. We have just wished Mr and Mrs Keble good bye before their departure for their summer holiday to the Isle of Man to study some of Bishop Wilson’s papers,1 it is very good for him to be from home a little while as for almost the first time in his life, he has been unwell during the hot part of the summer and till last Sunday was not allowed to do any duty. You had better if you please send your addition to the September garland straight to Derby, with a note to say it is to be added, I shall be at Salisbury for a few days next week so that it might make too much delay if it were directed to me here. I agree with you in much preferring St Margaret of Antioch and her legend, and for a drawing the poppy bud certainly is the best, but the real flower is not an agreeable one to handle as the daisy is, and it suggests the idea of sleep rather than the bright purity of the daisy. You spoke of going to Chatsworth in your last letter, there are few places I should like better to see, I think you must have laid up some ideas among those beautiful conservatories, and I hope you met with my friend the Dove Orchis. Yours sincerely C M Yonge Your paper is just come, thank you for it, and for the pretty custom you mention. Is there not something like it in one of the Parents’ Assistants Miss Edgeworth’s, only there it was a mother’s grave, decked with white paper, I suppose the custom has lived among Irish Roman Catholics also by her mentioning it 67. To Elizabeth RobertsHuntington Library: Yonge Letters Otterbourn Aug 14th [1852] My dear Madam, You see your paper was quite in time to be printed with the rest. I am glad St Matthew had the Passion Flower, it is to him that this Church is dedicated. I have been spending a few days at Salisbury this week, and much enjoying that most beautiful Cathedral, I feel as if I had before never properly appreciated it, only seeing it as a verger led visitor, and not going to it every day, and seeing it continually in my walks. That perfect cloister is above all things lovely. I also much enjoyed seeing Stonehenge for the first time, and we came home by Ambresbury, where though the nunnery is destroyed there remains a pretty old Church, originally early English, but having undergone much more restoration than is for its good, once in the days of late perpendicular, and once in the days of Church wardens, but now happily a third restoration is taking place under the auspices of Mr Butterfield.1 It was pleasant to find that the squire Sir E Antrobus was living in a farm house, leaving his own to be repaired till the Church is finished.2 We gathered a flower in the Church yard which I think the nuns must have bequeathed to puzzle us, it will not answer to anything in Sir James Smith Yours sincerely C M Yonge 68. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters Otterbourn Sept 11th [1852] My dear Madam, I send your pretty little garland for October, hoping it will find you improved in health Yours sincerely C M Yonge 69. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters Malvern Oct 4th [1852] My dear Madam I cannot deprive myself of the pleasure of telling you if you have not seen it yet, to look at the Notice of the Garland for the year in the Christian Remembrancer, I received it yesterday, and was very much pleased with it. I have, like you had a fortnight’s illness & idleness, ending in a holiday to visit some merry cousins here.3 This morning I have had the great pleasure of a good look over Worcester Cathedral, I cannot think it equal to Winchester or Salisbury, but there are some most interesting monuments, the good Bishop Wulstan especially delighted me, and the Saints and heraldic devices on Prince Arthur’s occupied us a long time. I am sorry it is too late to botanize here, I hear such an account of the flowers. We leave this place on Thursday, and if in the course of the week after you are kind enough to send any additional flowers, please to direct to me at the Revd Charles Dyson’s Dogmersfield Rectory Winchfield
C M Yonge 70. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters Otterbourn Oct 14th [1852] Dear Madam, It was Edward I who made the law for planting yew trees in Church yards, at least so I was told by a gentleman who never makes mistakes, and is deeply read in history. I have looked in vain in Evelyn’s silva and Loudon’s arboretum, but I think his information to be trusted.1 He says it had been done long before, but it was only in Edwd I’s reign that it became the subject of a statute. We have a Ch yard yew near us of very great age, and cut exactly into the shape of a mushroom. I have ventured to erase your ‘alas!’ to St Leonard, for a happy death hardly seems to me a subject for that interjection. I also took out the direct reference to Dr Newman’s Sermons. I like the beautiful quotation of that very fine sermon but I had rather not acknowledge it.2 They have made some strange misprints in the botanical names, but I have not the right ones at hand, and so have left them for you. Your November verses are much too pretty to spare any of them, I will take care they come in at any rate in this next number. I am sorry we are so near the end of the Garland. I have enjoyed it so much on my own account, but I must look forward to Margaret and her mother. I conclude that you are at Helmington again and direct there 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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