MS British Library Add MSS 54920: 181-182
Dear Mr Macmillan
I believe the childish form does not last,1 it is always cramping and a scratch of the pen will alter it where it prevails.
I was sorry afterwards I had not mentioned St John being recognised by his former pupil, the captain of the robbers, when he went out to be taken by him. It would be a fine subject for expression, and I wonder it has never been taken before. I believe I meant Archippus – the (supposed) angel of Laodicea as the third pupil of St John, but there is not enough of him to stand alone, without a wonderful amount of sermonizing – so I have worked him in with the other less little distinguished and half made out people.
I hope you will put an Eagle on the cover. Have you seen the Eagle in New College Chapel, it is a magnificent creature, and I should most particularly like to have it either there or in the title page, or both, for many reasons. I would send you a photograph but the one I have is not in the best position – and you are so much at Oxford that it would be sending coals to Newcastle.
What a fair and sensible article Mr Ll. Davies’s is.
We are in a world of hayfields delicious to all senses
Yours sincerely
C M Yonge
It is just possible that on Wednesday or Thursday Miss Sewell may call on you.2 If you will be from home on either of those days – would you let her know at the Revd W. Sewell’s
Huntley
Gloucester