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- 164.Frances Mary Yonge to Anne Sturges Bourne
- 165.To the Reverend Edward Coleridge 2
- 166.Sir William Heathcote to Caroline Elizabeth Heathcote 1
163.To Ann Maria Carter SmithMS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1857/11 Otterbourn Febry 4th [1857] Dear Miss Smith I am sorry to say that Aylton will not do. Phoebe is a noble little creature, and all has much of the prettiness that it is in all you do, but in the first place, the whole turns exclusively on love, and though that is not a subject that I at all wish to omit in the M.P. I had rather have it as an accessory than a principal. In the second place I never could like that kind of death bed request and I have an objection to the marrying a first love after a second. Still these are tastes of my own, and the story would probably tell very well in some other publication, and yet I think it is really a little exaggerated in several points. Would Constance with her perception of Phoebe’s superiority have brought her husband to live close by her? And are not two premature births rather too much? I think the whole effect to me is that this is a tale, whereas all you others are like bits of life, and have much more pathos, because they are so much quieter. I hear more and more praise of Thorns and Roses. Strangers seem as if they could not help expressing how much they like them. Poor Wishop! I have a great tenderness for Helen, but I confess that Roger rubs roughly against me. What will you say to me for having read it to Miss Sewell the other evening. She liked most of it very much, but she was strong against Roger taking Holy Orders. I do think the contrast between Hester’s failures and Kate’s apparent success too valuable to be quite lost. But I honor the withdrawal, when you have the feeling that you can do better, and I believe that the best thing we can do will be this, that I should return you Wishop and Aylton by tomorrow’s post, and publish the Household Record at the first interval - (that is as soon as Adelaide and her Godson are over, for to my surprise, they are twice as long as I thought) and still hope you may favour me with some story at your leisure. I should not wonder if you were to improve and soften the Wishop story, for I should not like Hester never to come to good, and I have many a time found that an idea mends by keeping and waiting. Hoping you will exonerate my unpleasant sincerity yours sincerely C M Yonge
[21 March 1857] My dear Miss Bourne I waited a few days to see if time would come to make something like a drawing, but waited in vain, so now I send a mere tracing of what my notion is, as well as the size of our letters and Numerals, the Exodus in red with blue border, the figures blue with red, and white patterns on all. I wish they would look as pretty in the sketch as they do when well finished. The S is especially good. I cannot remember now what were our authorities, but they were well ascertained at the time. Charlotte likes us all to read over her proofs and revises separately and really that takes more time than you would think. Julian is in all the pleasure of his first election eagerness, the third generation whom I have seen equally interested Just before my time, my Father half killed himself for ‘Heathcote and Chute’ but happily there is not so much time for the fever to last in these days.1 Charlotte says you ought to be told that the Peter Youngs have a nursery maid now, they go next week, leaving two children to console Mrs Keble. Yours very truly F M Yonge 165.To the Reverend Edward Coleridge2MS University of Manchester Ryl Eng. MS 734/183 Otterbourn March 28th [1857?] My dear Mr Coleridge I am very much obliged to you for so kindly undertaking the enquiry at Goslings which must be the preliminary to any undertaking in the cause of the Bells.3 I would not however have given you the trouble of reading my thanks had I not been charged with a message to you from Mrs Keble She obtained a promise from Mrs Selwyn when in England that little John might sometimes visit them in the holidays, and she would much like to have him for a little while this Easter but she does not know to whom to write for him, nor whether he might like to come, and as Mr Keble is so busy that she is afraid he will hardly have time to write before Easter to you, she desired me to ask you if you could tell her how the visit can be managed or if likely to be agreeable to the boy (as I should think it would be). What Fanny Patteson lent me was her copies from Coley’s letters and journals; of which probably you have seen more details. The description of the scenery of those tropical islands delighted us extremely. Mrs Abraham had had a bad influenza and feverish attack, but was much better when she wrote. With many thanks for the kindness of your note yours very sincerely C M Yonge
April 21 1857 Dearest Carry, I enclose the memoranda which I have made in reading Dynevor Terrace here for the second time. If you can not explain all my difficulties, perhaps you will get Charlotte herself to do so. Some of them, mainly those which proceed from ignorance or forgetfulness of passages in books with which she is quite familiar, will appear to her very strange, and many of them probably to you also. The characters are I think in general drawn with her remarkable power of giving individuality to them, and reality, even when they do odd and irreconciliable things. James is, as she told us, more disagreeable than she had intended him to be. Certainly he is more intensely odious than any character in her books that has good qualities. Still I can quite conceive such a person. But the least successful character appears to me to be Lord Ormersfield. We are told that he 1st sacrified himself to release his Father from embarrassments which he had brought on himself by foolish speculations. 2nd persevered in the same course of self denial in order to relieve his own son, and the Family position, from being swamped by the very burden, or any part of it. 3. succeeded in paying off every mortgage 4. kept himself throughout all this from becoming a money making machine like Oliver Dynevor; and on the contrary was conspicuous in public life & even became a Minister of the Crown. 5. was dignified in appearance and manners.
yr very affect Father William Heathcote
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