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Alexander Macmillan to Charlotte Mary Yonge
Sept 6 1866

Copy outletter book British Library Add MSS.55386 (1) P.387

Dear Miss Yonge,                                                                   Sept 6 1866

We shall look forward to the Chaplet of Pearls beginning as soon as either “Old Sir Douglas” or “The Silcotes”1 cease. It will be, I venture to think, one of your most popular books, and ought not to be the worse for a little mellowing.

I am going down to Scotland with my wife tomorrow morning, and will be away for a fortnight. After that I hope to be at home all the winter. We shall be very glad to see any of the worthies when you have done them.

I quite hope that Mrs Daniel is on the way of recovery. She is with us at present at [illegible]  of [illegible]  during our absence.

I hoped to send you’re a/c for the year with this. Mr Craik will in a few days.

I have several other matters which I want to talk to you about when I come back. I will write you very soon.

Very faithfully yours

A. Macmillan

 

1 Chapters of Caroline Norton’s Old Sir Douglas appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine from January to May 1866, and then from September 1866 to October 1867. The Chaplet of Pearls was serialized from November, 1867 to December 1868. Henry Kingsley’s Silcote of the Silcotes ran from July 1866 to September 1867.
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The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske.

URL to this Letter is: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/yonge/19598/alexander-macmillan-to-charlotte-mary-yonge-79

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