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91. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters Otterbourn Jany 21st [1854] Dear Miss Roberts, Carlisle Cathedral is a very pretty sketch, and will be very acceptable to the Monthly Packet, I think however it will be better to keep it for next year perhaps, if we and the Packet proceed and prosper as hitherto, so that it may be the opening of a series which promises to be very useful and interesting, I will consult a very good archaeologist at Winchester about the rugged [sic] staff ornament and add the information in a note if I can obtain any worth having. How many places are connected with King Arthur, I was so persuaded that his headquarters were Caerlyon that I have been hunting out the Mantle and Syr Gawayne in Percy and verifying that it was indeed in Merry Carleile. At Winchester we have the Round Table which is certainly as old as Henry III’s time, and is sanctioned by a Spaniard present at the marriage of Philip and Mary.2 It bears marks of the bullets of Cromwell’s soldiery, and altogether I think it one of the chief possessions of Winchester. I do not think I can condole with you on Mr Mozley not being willing to undertake your Garland. I do not think country publishers have the opportunity of promoting the sale of their books to such an extent as London ones. I do not know how far you are committed to Masters, but I should say myself that J W Parker of the Strand is the publisher with whom I have had the most satisfactory dealings, and I think he commands a larger sale than either his namesake of Oxford or than Masters. He takes such a variety of lines that I should think he was not likely to object to the Garland, but of course this must depend on how far you are engaged to Masters. He (Masters) generally, I believe, deals by buying the right to publish, instead of the half profit system, and I think the former the most agreeable plan, but if you adopt it, you had better have it distinctly expressed whether he purchased the entire copyright or only the right to publish an edition of a specified number. It saves an infinity of trouble and vexation afterwards to have these things clearly stated at first, and though one would naturally suppose that publishers would do this themselves, I have found it the only way to be explicit myself as to terms. I am sure the book would be welcomed by many, the hope of seeing the Garland is hailed by everyone to whom I have mentioned it with so much pleasure. I cannot imagine how we came not to think of St Joseph’s thorn before, it certainly ought to be part of the Garland, but whether at Christmas or on his day seems doubtful. I do not know whether your acquaintance with the Monthly Packet began in its infancy, The Little Duke, all but the last three or 4 chapters, appeared in it, and has been republished because I found various little boys very fond of it, and wanting a conclusion. It has the advantage of being at a period of which no one, except perhaps Sir F Palgrave knows anything of the manners, so that I was able to do what I liked with them. Are you in any of the fine parts of Wales? They must be beautifully wild in the winter when visitors so seldom behold mountain scenery, I hope you will let me know how the Garland fares, I am much interested in its fate Yours sincerely C M Yonge 92. To Anna Butler1MS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/1 Otterbourn Feby 1st [1854] My dear Miss Butler I have just finished reading your two chapters2, for which I thank you very much. Geneva is particularly interesting. I am so glad you did not go to Ferney, I am so tired of visits there.3 One thing in the 14th Chapter I had rather leave out, namely the story of Rudolf von Erlach’s murder, which to those who do not know the rest of his history (of whom I am sorry to say I am one) seems merely a horrible story. How beautiful the Freibourg legend of the lime tree is, did you not long to compare it with the Greek soldier who died while announcing victory in the same way. Did you see in the last Quarterly a Karelian William Tell reversed, the son shooting the apple off the father’s head.4 It would add another to the myths that Keightley5 has traced in his pretty book and shewn to belong to so many different countries. I have been thinking of asking you whether from your Danish studies you could afford me any help in some of my Name fancying1, where the Northern names quite baffle me, I mean such as Gustaf and Olaf, Swend, &c. Hilda I cannot make out either, and we find it so often in combination Clotilda, Matilda, Brenhilda that I am sure it must be significant. If you could throw any light on these matters, I should be very much obliged to you. Thanks too for Elizth Woodville’s diary2, but I am sorry to say that it has been proved to be one of those vraisemblable fabrications that are so provoking, I cannot lay my hand on the refutation of it, but I know it has been made long ago, and I remember being very sorry to give up the diary - though after all I do not suppose young ladies lived so wild a life, in her time, but more probably were very stiff and stately. Thank you for mentioning le philosophe sous les toits3, I must send for it as good French books certainly ought to be mentioned. This was recommended to me from another quarter the day before. I hope to meet Elizabeth Barnett4 next Monday at Dogmersfield whence probably the next proof of Aunt Louisa will be forwarded to you. She will just finish with the volume if I put in a chapter into each number, and this will be the best way, so as not to have an odd chapter left for the next, so she shall have the precedence in the choice of articles yours sincerely C M Yonge 93. To Anna ButlerMS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/2 Dogmersfield Febry 10th [1854] My dear Miss Butler Thank you for your message. I do not think Rudolf requires to return to you for he stands so much alone that he only needs to be taken out. Thanks too for the derivations, I shall trouble you with plenty more, I have no doubt, when I am at home with my list, and see my way out of the Latin derived names. I am to go home this afternoon after a very happy visit here. Elizabeth Barnett is writing on the opposite side of the table, I wish I was going to take her back with me. 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