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118.To John William Parker, Jr.MS Michigan State University2 Otterbourne Winchester July 10th [1854] Dear Sir, My new tale of ‘Heartsease or The Brother's Wife’ is now complete. I am willing to publish it in the same manner as the ‘Heir of Redclyffe’ and if you are ready to undertake it, will forward it to you, as soon as I have heard from you.. At your convenience, I should be glad to know the state of the account of The Little Duke. Yours faithfully, C M Yonge 119.To John William Parker Jr.MS Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Gratz Collection: Case 10, Box 36. British Authors 1 Otterbourne July 14th [1854] Dear Sir, I hope you will receive "Heartsease” tomorrow, as 1 shall send it by the South Western early in the day. I shall be glad for it to appear in the same style as the first edition of the Heir of Redclyffe but I do not think the volumes will be quite so large. You do not say what number you propose to print, I suppose not fewer than 1500 or 2000. 1 shall be quite ready to correct the proofs. One of the mottoes of the chapters was supplied from Mr F Tennyson's poems which you kindly sent me,2 and which arrived just as the lines were needed. I am glad to hear that the 4th edition of the Heir of Redclyffe has sold off,3 I hope the cheap one may meet with equal success. Yours faithfully C. M. Yonge 120.To John William Parker Jr.MS Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Gratz Collection: Case 10, Box 36. British Authors4 Otterbourne July 19th [1854] Dear Sir 1 am much obliged by your sending me the account of ‘The Little Duke’ and the accompanying £100.5 I should be glad if, in sufficient time beforehand, you would be kind enough to tell me your opinion with regard to a second edition, and whether it would be advisable to renew it in the present form, or to have one much smaller and cheaper. I have also to thank you for ‘The Plurality of Worlds’,6 I had seen the first edition of that remarkable book but I am very glad to possess this with the additional matter at the commencement. I suppose 400 pages will not make the volumes too large. I do not know whether the printer has taken into account that most of the latter part of the M S is written less closely than the earlier portions Yours faithfully C M Yonge 121.To Jemima BlackburnMS University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign: Letter 5. Otterbourn Oct 10th [1854] My dear Mrs Blackburn, Herewith is a ‘Heartsease’ which I don’t expect you to like much except one character in it. I wonder if I judge rightly which of them you will tolerate, not that I shall tell you beforehand. The time for the Little Duke’s second edition is come, so would you be so kind as to give directions to have another 2000 plates struck off. 1 It is to be a cheaper affair this time and allowing less margin to the illustrations so as to make it answer to sell at 3/6. What a delightful expedition2 yours must have been, but are you really going to settle out of the reach of civilised roads and ports? Your letters about your occupations often put me in mind of those busy days which are the charm of ‘Letters from the Mountains’, it is so new a world to us south country folk. Those puss caterpillars are creatures I never saw, though I know their funny picture very well, and the equally droll description in Episodes of Insect Life.3 My especial tame pets were a pair of tame magpies, most comical fellows, especially the first come, who was a most inveterate thief, and very spiteful to every living thing except my brother and one of the maids, on whose arm he would sit and drink tea. I fancy the raven is the cleverest of all that race, though I never know one intimately. Are you acquainted with any tame jackdaws, they with their grey heads, have something particularly quaint and delightful about them. Your wanderings, I suppose, checked your Bible Animals. I hope soon to hear more of them. My brother has been safe out of the battle, but I am thankful to miss the glory for the sake of losing the fearful suspense. Even as it is my mother is obliged to walk for her sleep. And as I have little time Yours sincerely C M Yonge 122.To Elizabeth BarnettMS location unknown. This fragment printed in Romanes, Appreciation 75 [? November 1854] Mamma told you of the wonderful début of Violet.1 I only wonder whether she will thrive as well when the critics have set their claws on her; the home critics are very amusing in their variety and ‘characteristicalness’ (there's a word!). My Colonel correspondent complains of the babies2 . . . .Sir W. Heathcote says the will would not stand3; Judge Coleridge falls foul of the geography of the Lakes; and so on.4 Most people say they think others will like it as well as Guy, though they don't themselves, and some few prefer it. It does want papa very much; but, then, he did set it going, and there is mamma to gloat over it. 123.To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters5 Novr 4th [1854] My dear Miss Roberts, Many thanks for the paper on Gloucester. It came in a good time for a cousin was staying with us whose home is close to Gloucester, and her brother a minor canon who has all its antiquities at his fingers ends. She set down the yew tree to ask him about, but as she went home in haste to prepare to set off in a week to spend the winter in the South of France, I think it has a fair chance of being forgotten and shall set another of the sisters to ask the question when the confusion is over. She agreed with you in almost everything except in admiring the modern monuments. It was curious that we had just been reading an account of that great day at Lichfield in a letter from a lady who was staying in the house with the Bishop and Mrs Selwyn. I do not know whether I mentioned to you my enjoyment at meeting them at Winchester and at Hursley. They spent two days at Winchester college and gave one of them to Hursley, and I believe it was the universal wish that the time had been longer. However we carry away some of his words and the remembrance of that noble, keen, apostolic face, which will haunt us long after he has left us. I think of his undertaking himself to navigate his missionary ship ‘the Southern Cross’ out to New Zealand with a crew of six men, it will be ready on St Stephen’s day, when Mrs Selwyn will have to take leave of her boys, and for seven years look to no home but this floating one. It is joy to think there are such people. I was amused at the offence given to the descendant of the Danes, but I am at a loss to think where I have introduced the name of Thompson, and certain little friends of mine who have made themselves a sort of concordance to the Heir of Redclyffe cannot recollect it either. I am afraid he must often suffer the same indignity for it is a name one writes down as one would ----- to fill up a gap. I think the general judgment of ‘Heartsease’ has been pretty fair, that she is inferior in some ways and superior in others to her predecessor, the details of course vary and very amusingly. There is a time in one’s life when printed critiques seem very dread and infallible, and it is curious to find oneself judging of them at last. I should like to know some of your articles in Chambers, I have been trying to guess, but I cannot detect from style. If you should be inclined to continue from ‘Rambles among the heather’ I think I shall be able to keep a space for them after the next half year, for we have had so much botany of late that I think I must keep one volume clear before beginning afresh. It seems presumptuous to make arrangements so long beforehand, but I find I am obliged to do so, to avoid crowding. I hope you are benefitting in health by your excursion and that you have no cause to be under personal anxieties for friends in this time of suspense. We have been in great measure spared the terrible anxiety for my brother, who was prevented by illness from going to the Crimea, and is now I believe on the way home to recover, but there are many connexions and friends still with the army and these are days of trembling of heart, I hope we shall all be the better for them Yours sincerely C M Yonge How beautiful your Cathedral on your note paper. 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