MS New York Public Library: Berg Collection
My dear Miss Sewell
Many thanks for you kind & pleasant piece of intelligence. I shall certainly try to get a sight of the number of Blackwood, it is rather an antidote to the Morning post which kindly says that no young people read my books, though their Mammas wish them to do so, because they are so unnatural.1
A good journey to you, I hope you will discover the En[or u]ilian provinces, which was one of the first things that came into my head when the Yards told me of your journey.2 I am so glad you are going, and what a curious state of things you are going to witness – it is well worth the journey.
I do not think you have been ever told that your Passing Thoughts was one of the last books Miss Keble enjoyed.
Yours sincerely
C M Yonge
Some people have asked me if you wrote ‘My Life’. You would have made a much less bitter and better balanced book, but this is a very clever one, though it might be wiser.