Copy outletter book British Library Add MSS. 55384 (2): P. 625
My dear Miss Yonge
Your scheme as decided by Miss Sewell and yourself seems to me very admirable.1 The one question is the compactness and vivid unity, which will be hard rather in an [illegible] such as you propose. But with artists like yourself [and] Miss Sewell there should be no difficulty[.] the thing ought to be very interesting indeed.
I have read all the Prince and the Page down to the present month. I think it delightful, and hope it will make a very nice Christmas book. But I confess I do not feel quite clear about the illustration.2 At a first glance it does not quite please me. The Architecture in any case should be more subordinated, but my first impression of the figures is rather that they are weak. I will write more about it tomorrow.
ever most truly yours
A. Macmillan
The enclosed cheque is for both your story & paper – which [illegible] capital.