Edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske

4 ‘Castren’s Travels among the Laps’ Quarterly Review 94 (December 1853) 196-212, 202.

5 Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries (1828).

1 ‘Name-Fancying’, a series by CMY in the Monthly Packet, which began in MP 3 (May 1852) 393-6.

2 Perhaps Henry Coore, The Story of Queen Elizabeth Woodville (1845).

3 Emile Souvestre, Un philosophe sous les toits: journal d’un homme heureux (1851).

4Elizabeth Barnett (1810-1900) was second cousin to the Rev. William Butler, who was married to her younger sister Emma Barnett, and therefore also to Anna Butler.

1 Evidently Roberts was nursing a sister or sister-in-law who had just given birth.

2 Jemima (Wedderburn) Blackburn (1823-1909), a Scottish naturalist and painter, met CMY through Frederick Rogers (1811-1889), later Lord Blachford, a Devon Tractarian who was married to her cousin Georgina Colvile (d.1900). Blackburn’s memories of CMY are printed in Robert Fairley, Jemima: Paintings and Memoirs of a Victorian Lady (Edinburgh : Canongate, 1988), 128: ‘Charlotte Yonge was a friend of the Rogers and was asked to stay while I was visiting them. It was a very small house and we were lodged in two little garrets next one another, and used to brush out our hair together before going to bed, and so soon became friends. She was very good looking with dark hair and fine eyes, spoke pleasantly and was a little above middle height. We talked of many things. I found her not at all formidable, as one feared she might be, being so well informed; one might almost say learned. . . . I kept up the friendship as long as she lived, and got a good many letters from her while I was illustrating her books.’

1They were working together on The History of Sir Thomas Thumb (Edinburgh: Constable 1855).

2 The town of Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire is the site of one of the Eleanor Crosses, erected by Edward I in 1291 to mark the resting places of his wife Queen Eleanor's body on its journey from Harby in Lincolnshire to Westminster Abbey.

3 The reference may be to fortifications in the Crimea.

1 The books referred to are (first column) J.-F. Michaud, Histoire des Croisades 6 vols (1840); Thomas à Kempis, De Imitatione Christi (c. 1420); John Keble, The Christian Year (1827); Reginald Heber, Hymns, Written and Adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year (1827); Walter Scott, Guy Mannering (1815); Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1593-6); J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (1837-1838); John Franklin. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea (1823); The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt., containing his Discourses (1797); an unidentified work, perhaps that earlier (15 March 1852) referred to as McCulloch’s Natural Theology see note there for a possible identification; Robert Southey, The Pilgrim's Progress with a Life of John Bunyan (1830); Friedrich, Freiherr von la Motte Fouqué, Sintram und seine Gefahrten (1815); Recueil des lettres de Madame la marquise de Sévigné, a Madame la comtesse de Grignan, sa fille (1736-48); Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi (1827); Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (1605,1615). The additional works in the second column are: possibly George Sale et al., An Universal History (1736-50); Jeremy Taylor, The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living (1650) and The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying (1651); George Herbert, The Temple (1633); an unidenfied Madeleine, probably from its position a novel; Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805); James Forbes, Oriental Memoirs (1813-5); Lord Lindsay, Sketches of the History of Christian Art (1847); Isaac Williams, The Baptistery, or, The Way of Eternal Life (1842-4); Friedrich von Schlegel, Philosophie der Geschichte (1829); an unidentified work.

2 Jemima Blackburn and James Wilson, Illustrations of Scripture. By an Animal Painter, with notes by a Naturalist. (Edinburgh :Constable [1855.])

3William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) painted his version of The Scapegoat in 1854, but it was not exhibited until after he returned from Palestine in 1856.

1 Henry G. Lyford (b. 1792/3), M.D. St. Andrews and General Practitioner, lived at 157 Southgate Street, Winchester in the 1851 census.

1 Bessie Collins seems to have been one of Mary Anne Dyson's pupils.

1 Black-edged paper. Endorsed in another hand ‘Feby: 1854’.

2 John Yonge’s wife, FMY’s half-sister, had died in 1844.

1 Richard Wilbraham (1811-1900).

2 Black-edged paper.

3 The Rev. Nutcombe Oxenham (1810/1-1859), vicar of Modbury, Devon, where WCY had evidently been a benefactor.

4 Duke and Anne Yonge had come to stay at Otterbourne to help the bereaved family.

1The Rt. Rev. Edward Denison, bishop of Salisbury (1801–6 March 1854) and the Rev. Richard Jenkyns (1782-6 March 1854), master of Balliol College Oxford, had recently died. Presumably so had some other dignitary.

2 The Rev. Percy Monro was perpetual curate of Colden Common in 1859.

3 She had told her stepsister Cordelia (Colborne) Yonge that her son Dr. John Francis Yonge would be unwelcome at the funeral because he had become a Roman Catholic.

4 Black-edged paper.

1 The arrival of the Vulcan at Malta on Saturday 11 March 1854 was announced in The Times (16 March 1854) 7.

2 The Bogue family were connected to the Yonges through the Mudges of Plymouth.

3 Black-edged paper.

1Sir Roland Ashton: A Tale of the Times (1844), an anti-tractarian novel by Lady Catherine (Walpole) Long (d. 1867). The edition referred to was advertised in The Times (10 March 1854), 13.

2 The Berne chapter of Aunt Louisa’s Travels was published in May 1854.

3 Black-edged paper.

4 Harriet Harvey (Holbeton 1800/1-1854) is recorded in the 1841 census as a female servant at Puslinch, and in the 1851 census as a schoolmistress, living alone in the village of Torre in Newton Ferrars parish.

1 Lady Seaton’s second son the Hon. Francis Colborne (1817-1895) was an army officer no doubt also on his way to the Crimea.

1 The final chapter of Aunt Louisa’s Travels, published in MP 7 (June 1854) 461-72.

2 William Crawley Yonge died on 26 February 1854.

3 Black-edged paper. One of the sheets of this letter has been partially cut away, leaving two gaps in the text. It is also possible that there may be a sheet missing after the second gap.

2 Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry 3 vols (1765).

3 Margaret Helen Moberly (1852-1939).

1Anne Grant, Letters from the Mountains (1806).

2 William Howard Russell (1820–1907), the Times correspondent, had criticized the conduct of the war.

3 Alexandre Dumas père, La Bouillie de la comtesse Berthe (1844) appeared in several English translations; CMY refers to the 1846 Chapman & Hall edition with 100 illustrations done by Albert Bertall for the French edition.

1Edward Davies, Celtic Researches: On the Origin, Traditions & Language, of the Ancient Britons (London : printed for the Author, and sold by J. Booth, 1804).

2 The Holy Bible, according to the Authorized Version: with notes, explanatory and practical; taken principally from the most eminent writers of the United Church of England and Ireland : together with appropriate introductions, tables, indexes, maps, and plans ed. George D'Oyly and Richard Mant (London: SPCK 1817).

3 Ellen J. Millington translated The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Frederick von Schlegel from the German in 1849 (reprinted a number of times up to 1891), Christian iconography, or, the history of Christian art in the Middle Ages by A.N. Didron from the French in 1851, and herself wrote Heraldry in History, Poetry, and Romance (1858) and Characteristics of the Gods of Greece. A Manual for Schoolgirls (1867). She contributed seven articles on ‘King Arthur and his Knights’ to the MP between 1861 and 1864. In the 1881 census an Ellen J. Millington (b. 1818) and her widowed sister are recorded as schoolmistresses living with a single servant in Hawarden, Wales.

4Henry Murray Lane (1833-1913), Bluemantle Pursuivant at the College of Arms (1849-1864).

5 Her heraldry articles ran from 1853-1857.

1 Selwyn William Moberly (1854-1871), seventh son and youngest of the Moberlys' fifteen children, was christened on 8 June.

2Perhaps one of those illustrated in Fairley, Jemima 35.

3 The Scots ballad 'Tam Lin', about a minstrel stolen by the fairies, includes the lines: ‘Then would I never tire, Janet,/ In elfish land to dwell;/ But aye at every seven years,/ They pay the teind to hell.’ The 'teind' is a tenth.

1Isaiah 13:21-2; Sir Robert Ker Porter, Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 (1821).

2 ‘Monday in Whitsun Week’, 31-6: ‘With half-closed eye a lion there/ Is basking in his noontide lair,/Or prowls in twilight gloom. /The golden city's king he seems, /Such as in old prophetic dreams/Sprang from rough ocean's womb.’

3Cecil Frances Humphreys (1818-1895) married (1850) the Rev. William Alexander. This was her third book, published by Masters in 1849, following Verses for Holy Seasons (1846) and Hymns for Little Children (1848) to which Keble wrote a preface. As a girl she had lived in Winchester and known CMY.

4 Original Poems for Infant Minds by Ann and Jane Taylor, first published in 1804-5. The more famous Rhymes for the Nursery, containing ‘Twinkle, twinkle little star’, was published in 1806.

5Black-edged paper.

1John Keble, ‘The Gathering of the Church’, l.1.

2Jane Cowing (b.1807/8), the Moberlys' governess.

1The Bishop of New Zealand, George Augustus Selwyn (1809-1878).

2The implication is that Dyson’s pupils had attended the service. Caroline Harriet (Palmer) Abraham (d.1877), wife of another New Zealand missionary, the Rev. Charles John Abraham (1814-1903).

3There are some inaccurate accounts of Yonge's charitable donations to the Melanesian Mission. This sum of £146: 10s, profits from The Heir of Redclyffe, provided part of the purchase price of the Southern Cross. Later Yonge gave the profits from The Daisy Chain to the mission, which paid them an annual income, and which became a specific bequest in her will. Maggie was Margaret Helen Moberly (1852-1939). Another account of this presentation is in Dulce Domum 112-3n.

4John Richardson Selwyn (1844-1898), the Bishop's son, later (1877) Bishop of Melanesia.

5Probably a niece of the Warden of Winchester College, Robert Speckott Barter.

6 WCY’s elder brother the Rev. Charles Yonge (1781–1830), a master at Eton.

7 Caroline Wabisane, a native of the island called by Selwyn Nengonè, now New Caledonia, the fiancée of George Siapo (d. 1853) an early convert; she was educated at St. John's College and christened after Mrs Abraham; following Siapo's premature death she married a Maori named Simeona: Life of John Coleridge Patteson I, 196, 284.

1 Mary Anne (1805/6-1884) and Louisa Catherine Palmer (d. 1868) were sisters of Caroline Harriet Abraham and daughters of Sir Charles Thomas Palmer, 2nd Bt..; they were also first cousins to Mrs Selwyn.

2Mary Ann Moberly had recently given birth to her fifteenth and youngest child. Nonetheless, this is perhaps an implied criticism of her relationship with her children, which was (reading between the lines of Dulce Domum) rather distant. The Moberlys rented a farm in Hursley parish for the summer holidays, and the 'farm children' are probably the younger ones, whom Mrs Moberly would not have seen for some days.

3Lady Eleanor (Ashburnham) Wodehouse (d. 1895), wife of the Rev. Algernon Wodehouse (1814-1882), Rector of Easton, near Winchester.

4Possibly Caroline (Champernowne) Williams (1810/11–1886), wife of the Rev. Isaac Williams.

1The significance of this point is explained by the colonel's sister Frances Wilbraham in her contribution to Musings on the Christian Year, lxix. Keble disliked the Crimean War, in which CMY's brother Julian was fighting: 'It grieved him sorely that England should have been compelled to league herself with a Mahometan power against another Christian nation.'

2 Black-edged paper.

1 This and the following letters to Parker in Philadelphia were printed by David Bonnell Green, ‘Two Popular Novelists of the 'Fifties and Their Publisher: Letters from G. J. Whyte Melville and Charlotte M. Yonge to John William Parker, Jr.’ Notes & Queries 10 (1963) 450 454.

2The epigraph to Chapter 111 (Volume I. Part 1) of Heartsease is ten lines from Frederick Tennyson's ‘The Bridal’ from his Days and Hours (London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854), pp. 57, 64, 65. CMY runs together three selections from the poem without indicating that there is any break between them

3Presumably dated 1854. The 5th edition is dated 1854.

4 Printed by Green op.cit..

5The Little Duke was published in 1854 and reissued in 1857.

6William Whewell, Of the Plurality of Worlds: an Essay (1853) and Dialogue on the Plurality of Worlds, being a Supplement to the Essay on that subject (1854).

1The Little Duke, or Richard the Fearless (London : John W. Parker, 1855). The tale was first serialised in the Monthly Packet, beginning in the first number. Jemima Blackburn did the illustrations for the first edition published by Parker in 1854. CMY was later to express her opinion of the deficiencies of Blackburn’s illustrations in letters to Alexander Macmillan (25 January, 26 February 1865).

2The Blackburns had bought a holiday house, Roshven, ‘a small property on the beautiful west coast of Inverness-shire’ which could only be reached by boat: Fairley, Jemima,. 38-39, 44-45, 151.

3 See above, To Anne Yonge (15 March 1852).

1Her novel Heartsease, or, The Brother's Wife, which had just been published. She sends Jemima Blackburn a copy in October, and a review in The Times (28 Dec 1854) 5, refers to its success.

2 Colonel Richard Wilbraham. The heroine of Heartsease gives birth to four children, and the dangers of childbirth are emphasised, though not so as to terrify a modern reader.

3 In the novel Aunt Nesbit leaves her money in trust, the heir to be one of the grandsons of her nephew-in-law, Lord Martindale, when he shall inherit his grandfather's title. Such a trust would have infringed the perpetuities rule against remoteness of vesting.

4Sir John Taylor Coleridge.

5 Black-edged paper, with black-edged envelope addressed to Miss Roberts/ Kings Bromley/ Kingsley.

1 The Rev. William Gresley (1801–1876) was a Tractarian controversialist who also wrote fiction, and on the whole it seems more likely that CMY would apply this adjective to one of the latter than to one of his theological works.

2CMY's brother Julian returned from the Crimea.

1St. Andrew's Day, 30 November. Coffee was a remedy against headache, to which FMY was prone.

2Profits from The Heir of Redclyffe. The provision of a school in such an outlying hamlet is one of the leading events in CMY's novel The Daisy Chain. According to J. Frewen Moor, A Guide to the Village of Hursley, the Home of Keble, author of ‘The Christian Year’ (Winchester: Savage 1869), 6, the chapel was built at CMY’s expense, for £800, to a design by William Butterfield.

3To nurse in the Crimea.

1Duke Dowton Yonge (d. 1878), R. N., son of CMY's first cousin the Rev. Duke John Yonge (1809-1846), one of the Antony Yonges.

2 Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons (1790-1858), second-in-command of the British fleet in the Crimean war.

3The book was being published by Parker on commission (BL: Add.54920/1-2), which meant that CMY paid all production costs and the publisher received a commission on the copies sold. This is presumably the reason she was so involved with the details of binding etc. and later with the cost of producing the second edition. Deer Park was the home of Lord and Lady Seaton.

4 Marian (Rogers) Legge (1814-1890), third sister of Frederic Rogers, married (1842) the Rev. and Hon. H. Legge.

5Georgiana Mary Colvile (d.1900), first cousin of Jemima Blackburn, married (1847) Frederic Rogers (1811-89), barrister and politician, who succeeded his father (1851) in a baronetcy and was created (1871) Lord Blachford. CMY and Blackburn first met while staying with the Rogers family in London in the 1840s. CMY refers to her own novel, The Two Guardians, or Home in this World (London: Masters 1852).

6Kenneth, or, The Rearguard of the Grand Army (Oxford: J. H. Parker 1850). The publisher of The Christian Year and other Tractarian titles, he is not to be confused with his namesake J. W. Parker, who published The Heir of Redclyffe and several other of CMY’s books.

1 Black-edged paper.

2 The Rev. Francis Edward Paget (1806-1882), Rector of Elford, Staffordshire 1835-82, was a prominent Tractarian clergyman and novelist; his works include Tales of the Village Children (1845).

1 Possibly the wife of Captain William Harris, Chief Constable of Hampshire.

2 Black-edged paper.

3 Black-edged paper.

1 2 Chronicles 1:5.

2 Black-edged paper endorsed in another hand ‘(1855)’.

3 Jane Duke Yonge (1820/1-27 March 1855).

4 Anna Harriet Drury, Friends and Fortune: A Moral Tale (1849).

1 The Rev. Joseph Simmonds was Rector of Chilcomb in 1859.

2 Black-edged paper.

3 John Bargus Yonge (1821-1863), Anne’s elder brother, and his wife Cordelia Hay.

4 They were Mrs Abraham’s sisters and Mrs Selwyn’s first cousins, and were therefore up on New Zealand affairs.

1 Some of the papers of Mary Anne Dyson’s mother and namesake were published as Memorials of a Departed Friend (1833).

2 Anne was nursing her sister Jane.

3 Elizabeth (Bigg) Heathcote (1773-23 March 1855), Sir William’s mother.

1 Black-edged paper endorsed '1855'.

2 The name was later used for a character in The Clever Woman of the Family (1865).

3 The word 'Keswick' deleted here.

1 Black-edged paper.

1 Genesis 22:2-13.

2 CMY explained that ‘the opening words were in Mrs. Keble’s hand’.

3 This letter makes it clear that the chapter separately published as ‘Last Heartsease Leaves’ was originally conceived as the ending of the novel.

4 Walter Scott, Marmion (1808), Canto 6, 27, 1147-8: ‘I do not rhyme to that dull elf/ Who cannot image to himself . .’

5 Black-edged paper.

2Probably dating between the death of WCY and the death of the Rev. Charles Dyson in 1860.

3 Alice Moberly was in Oxford, nursing her brother George through a serious illness.

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