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53. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters Otterbourn Decr 15th [1851] Dear Madam I send you the proof of the Garland, which you had better return direct to Messrs Mozley Friar Gate Derby His printers are apt to make great havoc with botanical names, and then put puzzled queries in the margin which amuse me very much. I could not find St Gundula in Alban Butler, and so must leave that correction to you. You will see that I have made one or two little alterations. I did not like to call the 3d century a time of superstitious observance, and there are some stories of Clothilde in Thierry which make me doubtful if the epithet gentle quite applies to her.1 I have also put your description of St Genevieve’s shrine into the past, as I am afraid her Church has been turned into the Pantheon, and indeed as I found myself the other day it is not at all safe to speak decidedly of the present state of any church in unfortunate France. Perhaps you yourself would change one of two expressions which occur too near each other, where St Genevieve is called a true woman, & Veronica a true womanly image -- I think the first might be altered with advantage. Will you allow me to submit to you one other alteration, namely in the verses where you say ‘On your holy anthem voicing’ I am not sure that voicing is a real word, and if it could be altered to some such word as ‘pealing’ or perhaps to ‘voices,’ I think it might be better, but this I say with great diffidence, only as a suggestion. I am so far like Alexander in the Story of a Family1 that I like to be able to parse the sentences I meet with. I think the printers would be glad to have the proofs as quickly as you can forward them, as Sunday & two day posts have delayed them. Believe me Yours sincerely C M Yonge
Jany 31st [1852] Dear Madam, You are of course perfectly at liberty to reserve the copyright of the Garland for the Year. I should think it would form a very pretty little volume, and I hope, you will find, as I have done, that previous publication in a magazine is rather an advantage than otherwise in afterwards negociating for the publication of a work. I am sorry not to be able to offer a larger rate of payment, but the Monthly Packet is still very new, and the Publisher only promises me £30 for the year, which, divided by the 960 pages, gives /7½ per page, reserving nothing for myself as Editor, only paying for my own writings the same as any other contributor. I hope that the circulation will increase, as it has already done beyond my expectations. Though I have published before in Magazines, I have never made any bargain before hand, but taken at the end of the year the sum which the managers have chosen to give me, and thus I have not been in the way of judging the rate of payment. I should be much obliged if you would not object to tell me what proportion our scale bears to that of the periodicals with which you have been accustomed to have dealings. It is curious, how, when the attention is once directed to a subject, lights are thrown on it from every quarter. You asked if I knew anything of the Bean of St Ignatius and yesterday I came on a mention of it, in ‘Travels in Thibet and Tartary’ by Huc and Gabet, two French missionaries.2 It grows in the Phillipine isles, is brown, hard and horny, very bitter, and is used in medicine by the Chinese, who call it Kon Kaow. I thought you would be glad to hear all I could find, though I do not think it sounds promising for a garland. yours sincerely C M Yonge 55. To Elizabeth RobertsMS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters Otterbourn Febry 17th [1852] Dear Madam, I waited to thank you for the kind manner in which you answered my last note, until I could send you the proofs for the present month. I think the St Patrick division a particularly interesting one, and take great delight in the Star of Bethlehem. I have taken out the S in the name of the poet Wither, as I believe it has no right there. I know several of his descendants1 who do not at all approve of seeing it added to their name. I think I previously mentioned that I thought it better to omit the concluding sentence on the Marygold, and I have put a mark to one part about Pope Zachary, as I think it doubtful whether there is any use in allowing it to stand, but this is for your consideration. Thank you for the particulars you have been so kind as to send me. I hope we may arrive at greater prosperity in time, but I think it something not to have absolutely failed, as I believe there is always a good deal of risk in commencing a periodical. Also I suppose it is hardly to be expected that one of these religious views should have as wide a circulation as some of those you mention. Chambers I prefer much to Sharpe, excepting the stories2, and I think nothing seems so widely read among those classes whom it is so difficult to reach, as the ‘Family Friend’ which has lately improved a good deal. I am not sure whether I may not have to ask you another question if you will be kind enough to answer it on behalf of my contributors to whom it is an object to obtain some tolerable payment quickly. It is only whether papers would be likely to be attended to if sent without any introduction or recommendation I remain yours very much obliged C M Yonge 56. To Anne YongeMS West Devon Record Office Acc 1092/8 Otterbourn March 15th [18523] My dear Anne How sorry I am to hear that Mary has a cold to pull her down just as she was getting better. I hope it will not last, but this is bad weather for shaking it off. It signifies rather more than my nose. I have been laughing much at the sensation that made two months after it had quite recovered. And after all it was not in consequence of my labours for my countrywomen, but rather that in October, being very unhappy about Alethea Mackarness1 and rather forlorn at Julian’s departure, I worked very much & raced from one thing to another to drive out worrying about them, and altogether that was rather too much, but port wine and sulphuric acid soon set all to rights again. Have you heard of the railroad accident? It was at 11 1/2 on Saturday night, part of the tire of the wheel was loose, and they got off the line close by the Moat House Farm, at least they were off the rails from where the arch is across the road, and just by the Moat House the engine ran down the embankment on the side towards Brambridge, carrying with it the tender and post office van, but happily the 3 carriages broke off, and were left. The stoker was killed, and the engineer had his legs so crushed that he died the same night, the 2 post office men were much hurt, and there is a report that one is dead. The letters were scattered on the bank. I was just gone to bed when it happened, and heard the steam whistle long and loud, but little thought how much it meant. The Policeman at Bishopstoke who was watching saw the light run off the lines and sent an engine to see what was the matter. On Sunday after Church we went to look at the place, the engine & tenter lay there covered with tarpaulin and there were a good many people about, very quiet and orderly. James, the Hursley coachman asked Papa it had happened from a ‘coalition’. I am so glad you found out the Pitpat Mason I put it in on purpose. I hope you will read the Women of Christianity, it is such a beautiful book.2 D’Israeli’s Charles I is one that I much want to read. 3 Mrs Heathcote had the two first Insect Episodes in the book club but she did not like them, and so will not get the third which we are very sorry for as we liked them extremely. 4 Miss Cooper’s Rural Hours is another very pretty book, it is a sort of country Journal of the birds, flowers &c in a village in America. Is it not curious than [sic] our weeds, which have travelled there no one knows how, should be driving out the native American plants, such as the pitcher plant &c. 5 Poppies seem the only ones that are not rampant, and they will grow as cultivated in gardens though never in the corn like ours. Tell Duke that there is a story for boys coming in the next Packet, but it is a very dismal one. Poor Judith, Susan Whorley’s sister, whose husband was killed at Bishopstoke, is fast dying of decline, she had it before, but his death seems to have hastened it, and she is so happy as it. Before she knew she was in such a state, she used to sign her letters to Susan Your unhappy sister, now she has quite left it off. Her mother is with her at Bishopstoke. Another of our girls, Fanny Backhurst married a soldier, and last summer came to stay with her father, bringing a little boy of three, who used to drill his little aunts. Now the poor thing has just died of a chill she caught three weeks after her baby was born, and her mother has just been to Wolverhampton to fetch home the little baby. The father is only 21, and some of his relations take the boy, he allows Mrs Backhurst 3 shillings per week, which is somewhat handsome, I think. What fun about William Barnes. I wonder how he comported himself it must have been very awkward. Anne Hedges looks more cadaverous than ever, but Stoneham was said to disagree with her, and she had more work there, she had dreadful headaches, but she has not had one since she has been here. You know Martha is no further off than Misselbrook’s shop, her little Mary who is about a year and a half old is one of the prettiest children I ever saw. Mr Wither has Mr & Mrs Janvrin staying with him, a Winchester clergyman.1 She is having her head modelled by Mr Lucas, and is very handsome. Papa and I dined there yesteray, unluckily Mamma had a headache and could not go, & Kezia went to wait. You would have laughed to see Mr Wither snatch up the one candle lamp off the drawing room table, leaving the Janvrins in the dark, when he came to escort us out at the front door. Mamma and I are very busy reading Maculloch’s Natural Theology, a book Duke would highly approve.2 your most affectionate CMY
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