Copy outletter book British Library Add MSS.55386 (1) P.160
My dear Miss Yonge,
Except for a possible visit to [illegible] Lodge on Saturday, whence I shall return on Monday, I will be at home all the 10 days from the 20th and it will be a great pleasure to me to see you. I have several matters which I should wish to talk over with you. I am sorry I can say little about Mr J[illegible] in [illegible] my dear Sister-in-law. We are not losing [illegible] gaining ground.1
The dove is continuing a success with even the most captious critics, and is selling well in spite of a dull distressing season, caused by all these distressing bank failures. The year has revealed very ungolden deeds.
How does the chaplet of Pearls stand? You will tell me about it when I see you.
Could you do a second series of Golden Deeds, or rather a companion volume, of the doers?2 Mr Craik has suggested a volume Heroes of History, and in talking it over it looks as if it might assume that form. I mention it now that you may think over it.
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Yours very faithfully,
Alex. Macmillan