MS Yale University, Beinecke Library
Dear Sir
Herewith I send copied out for me by a friend, a story for your Christmas number.1 I hope you will not think it either too long or too much of a child’s story.
The whole description of the carol singing past and present is from actual nature here. I have myself heard the verses about ‘Divers’ sung The Wolf incident likewise happened in this neighbourhood but ended in the fierce dog being killed. If you accept it, I should like to have a parcel of Christmas carols in due time, and a couple of copies of the Christmas number itself as part of the payment I hope soon to send you a short story of an adventure connected with the camp at Aldershot which I heard of the other day2
yours truly
C M Yonge
30th Your kind letter and the advertisements have just arrived. Thank you for what you say. I have had some remuneration voluntarily offered for some of my earlier books and both Mr Macmillan and Marcus Ward make arrangements in America which are considered in the remuneration they give me. The American history has been revised by an American clergyman. I believe its publication in America will precede that in England.