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71. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters Otterbourn Oct 19th [1852] My dear Madam The same post that brought your pleasant note, brought this enclosure from Mr Mozley, of a note from Mr Neale of Sackville College. I am quite glad you have not seen the Xtian Remembrancer as it gives me the pleasure of copying out for you the passage he alludes to ‘The Church names of flowers are most ably given in the series of papers which stands at the head of this article. We know not where we have read a series comprising so much of ecclesiastical research with such a sense of the picturesque and so much love for the English landscape in fact, every way, so perfectly delightful. We recommend it very strongly to our readers and we trust that the labours of the Author (or perhaps Authoress) will be extended to other parts of nature when the present set shall conclude with the year. Birds and insects would afford a larger scope. To give an instance from the latter the Lady bird or Lady cour (of course called from Our lady) is in Spanish the Jaquilla de Dios, in German, the May Lady, the French the Bête à bon Dieu, in Russ, Boja Korooka, God’s Cow.’ I did not give your name but told Mr Mozley I would reply as you might desire. I am indeed sorry to part with the Garland, and should be more so, if I had not Margaret to look forward to. I believe a conversation is the best way of treating matter where it is doubtful how much to say, as in the case of the Black Letter Saints. Do you know the Lyra Sanctorum?1 Some of the poems there are beautiful though they are by no means equal. I am sorry I did not see the tombstone you mention, it must indeed cover a mystery of woe.2 I must look out Wordsworth’s sonnet, but not before this letter goes, as I am writing in haste, for the afternoon is to be spent in an expedition to see Mr Keble for the first time since his return, entirely recovered, I am glad to say, Yours sincerely C M Yonge 72. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters to Elizabeth Roberts Otterbourn Nov 8th [1852] My dear Madam, I must send you a few lines of thanks for Margaret whom I think extremely ‘grown and improved,’ and like very much so far, I have only one criticism to make, surely Arius was an Egyptian born at Lybia, and so presbyter of Alexandria as all the Church histories call him.3 St Blaise is very interesting. I have been used to see him made very frightful as the sign of a public house at Romsey - where there is one of the Churches that is the glory of Hampshire belonging to the old nunnery where good Queen Maude disdained the veil.4 I am like you hardly satisfied to call these Stories. How would it be to call them ‘The Lesser Holydays’ or ‘Evenings with the Saints’ It would be better not to say dialogues or discussions or conversations, as all these have been used up already, and so has Calendar in other Magazines. Thank you for making them short, it is great gain to have a contributor who knows the evils of redundancy. I do not like to lose your heaths, I daresay time might yet be made for them, and it is a pity to miss one flower from the last wreath of our Garland, which I am sorry to see quite finished Perhaps Mr Mozley refused to do with the collection of poetry you mention thinking the ground pre occupied by ‘Days and Seasons,’ one of three little books which he has published of poetry, original & selected, much from old writers and very well chosen Yours sincerely C M Yonge 73. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters Otterbourn Novr 22d [1852] My dear Madam, The wreaths for these autumn months have been so much smaller that I am sorry to say that there is only 7/6 to send you for this quarter, and here are P.O. stamps to that amount. I have not yet heard what we shall be able to do next year. I think that 1the Lesser Holydays’ is the name that best approves itself to me, what do you think of it. I know the poem of Mary Howitt’s you mention, but we have it not in the house nor do I know where I read it. If ever I come on it I will send it to you. With many thanks for your Garland, which has been one of the choicest possessions of this years Packet Yours sincerely C M Yonge 74. To Joseph Masters?MS Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA, collection 100. Otterbourn Decr 23d 1852 Sir I am obliged to you for forwarding the cheque for £25 for the first edition of the Two Guardians. I am at present too much engaged to think of publishing anything in the Churchman’s Companion,1 though I am obliged to you for the proposal. Yours sincerely C M Yonge 75. To Mary Anne DysonMS location unknown. Printed in Coleridge, Life 188 Otterbourne, January 15, 1853. My dear Marianne If the maids had not an evil habit of keeping the arrival of a parcel a secret for some hours, I should not have let the dear Guy go without note or comment, but we never heard of him till just as we were starting for Winchester, when I wrote his mother's name in the first that came out, and carried him off. I hope she has had him by this time, and that she is satisfied with the son she gave me to educate, who has been one of my greatest pleasures for two and a half years. On that same day I took the first step to sending you my daughter for the same purpose. I spoke to Mrs. Collins, who was much pleased, but her heart is so full of George that I was edified by the comparative value of a son and daughter.2 She was very nice about it, when I said Miss Dyson chiefly cared for their being well brought up at home, and that I was sure of that with Bessie. ‘Yes, to be sure, we do try to teach them our best, as far as we know, and I don't think they have ever heard anything bad, and that was what Mr. Fielder said about George, he wouldn't mind having him with his own children.’ I thought you would be glad of that voluntary testimony, coming out of the fulness of the heart, and quite forgetting it was to recommend Bessie. She will be going on the 24th of July, and her mother says, ‘she will be happy, for she does not mind being away from home.’ However, as her visits have been made with her grandmother, I would not answer for the felicity at first, but I like to think it is in train. I send ‘St. Margaret’ on approval; you see she is quite to the level of the Pink.3 I will make an exhortation to Miss Mozley to put it in as soon as she can; I told her it was coming when she sent me some pay the other day. I suppose you are parting with Miss Lefroy--4 wasn't she to go on Saturday? Is the Old Man come home? I hope he was not too much tired. Slave's mother says she enjoyed insulting you with the Morning Herald, which she had done up before Guy came in propriâ personâ. Your most affectionate C. M. Y.
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