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205.To Ann Maria Carter SmithMS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1859/102 Otterbourne, Winchester. October 4th 1859 My dear Miss Smith I was on a visit in Devonshire when your note reached me, or I would sooner have written to thank you for telling me of the commencement of the printing of Aggesden Vicarage. I suppose Mr Parker intends to have it out in the ‘publishing season’ at Christmas, and I hope it will progress. Frances Dysart has given unmitigated satisfaction except by coming to an end, everyone likes and admires her, but I am often asked why she has come to an end and have to explain that the author’s rigid truthfulness forbade a pleasant catastrophe. I like the Wynnes much as they proceed, (and so does the Literary Churchman)3 Those Kelsos are delightful, and enliven the story very much, and we are quite in love with William, but I cannot think what is to become of Henrietta yours sincerely C M Yonge 206.To an Unknown ManMS Princeton University, Parrish Collection, C0171: Box 29. Otterbourne, Winchester. Oct 11th 1859 Sir, I have much pleasure in acknowledging the safe arrival of your thank offering for the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street. I am this morning forwarding it to the Assistant Secretary Mr S Whitford, 4, Porter Street Leicester Square. I am sure from the particulars I learn from ladies constantly in the habit of visiting there that it is a most valuable and well conducted charity; and that your donation will be well bestowed. With thanks for giving me so pleasant a commission, as well as for letting me know the cause Yours faithfully C.M. Yonge 207.To Ann Maria Carter SmithMS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1859/11 Otterbourne, Winchester. Oct 21st 1859 My dear Miss Smith I should say if you made it, his squire, it would do. One says - Oh his squire is Sir Charles or Lord H - meaning that such a relation exists between landowner and parson - though on the other hand the gentleman may not be exactly an Esquire. It is rather a cockney printer’s objection, but there is some sense in it. Sir Hector belongs to the Squirearchy, and though not an esquire is Mr Arnold’s Squire from his territorial relations So I should think his squire would be all right. I am so glad to see the book fairly started. Kelso St John meets with great applause. I beg your pardon, I have put his name backwards, but I am writing on my knees by firelight so excuse blunders yours sincerely C M Yonge 208.To John William Parker, Jr.MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection, C0171: Box 29 Otterbourne,Winchester. Oct 29th 1859 My dear Sir, I have to thank you for the pretty tale of the Nut Brown Maids which we are reading with much interest and pleasure.1 Some months ago, Miss Roberts, I believe, wrote to you about a tale of the Roman Revolution of 1848 which you rejected.2 She has since lent me the M S and I am so much struck with it, that I cannot for bear venturing to ask whether it were an account of the ill success of the Two Mottoes3 or on its own merits that you declined it. If the first, may I be allowed to say that I think the former stories no criterion for the present, which is exceedingly in advance of them. The former ones were weak and youthful - this is on new ground, and full of very pretty descriptions of scenery, and characters that I should think admirable, the manners giving a very new and interesting picture. Some friends of mine who are now reading it and who have been much in Italy are delighted with the faithfulness of the picture, and I can hardly believe it can be otherwise than very popular. Miss Roberts is now abroad, and has left it in my hands, to endeavour to procure its publication. Before taking further measures, I could not forbear asking you (in case it had only been rejected because of the unfortunate Two Mottoes) to reconsider the verdict, for I candidly think it a book not to be rejected. I have thought more highly of the book since some recent articles in the Saturday Review, which seemed like a comment on it. I own that I expected little from the M S judging by her former works, but I was surprised and delighted with this, I will await your answer before taking any further step Yours faithfully C.M. Yonge 209.To Caroline Elizabeth Cooke-TrenchMS location unknown. Printed in Coleridge, Life 296-7 Otterbourne, Winchester November 3, 1859 My dear Caroline I find mamma is answering your questions and leaving me to tell you what I know you will wish to hear about our loss. I do so wish you could have seen our dear little William, with his large dark, soft eyes, and his merry smile, he was such an unusually intelligent and pretty creature, I suppose too much so, as if marked from the first for a brighter home. Somehow I am half glad, though grieved, that my father's name and Mr. Keble's godson should be safe from any stain or dimming. It was well for mamma to be spared the two nights and one day of his sinking, just kept up by wine as long as he could swallow, and then six hours of fading away, the last two upon Frances's lap. They brought him home to us, in his little coffin looking so smiling and pretty, with violets in his hands, and on Monday we laid him at his grandfather's feet. Mrs. Keble made his little white pall, and put a cross of myrtle leaves with arbutus flowers and holly berries. Frances is so good and sweet and gentle that it is beautiful to watch her, and Julian too, he feels it very deeply, for the little fellow was very fond of him, and always wanted his notice. Mr. Wither too has been very much grieved by it, he was so fond of the baby, and used to go down on the floor to make him laugh, as he lay upon his cushions on the floor at breakfast-time. I believe many people thought him very delicate, but he was a happy little thing, and we hardly realised how frail was the tenure. Julian and Frances go to her uncle's on Saturday for a fortnight; it is a sort of second home to her, and will be very cheering, she hopes. Yours affectionately C. M. 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