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Search the Wayback Machine Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. Sign up for free Log in. Sage X There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. I have endeavoured to share with others my impressions, my knowledge, of Charlotte Yonge. I have tried as far as I can to show her as she was in herself, so that her fine example may be made known far and wide, rather than to chronicle the small events of her very quiet life in regular order.
In one way the task has been easy, for so consistent, so harmonious a life has surely never been described, and rarely been lived. Her daily life, her published writings, her letters to' friends and relatives, are all in accordance with each other. No inconsistent nor disappointing record has, or ever can, leap to light where she was concerned. An immense number of letters have been kindly entrusted to me ; they are of extraordinarily even merit, and they all present the same character from beginning to end.
She did not invent letters, she talked on paper. One difficulty has been that there is hardly a date on one of them. YONGE self, tied up in packets, and dated with the year to which they belong. Had this not been done, the difficulties would indeed have been increased greatly. Miss Yonge did not preserve her friends' letters, nor did she apparently consider her own, if returned to her after the death of her correspondents, of much value.
