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July 25. 1867.

Copy outletter book British Library Add MSS.55387 (1): P. 389

Dear Miss Yonge
The parcel for Miss Lewis reached Tooting safely, and will not in the least inconvenience me.1 I will endeavour to deliver it early after my arrival.

I have read the Story of the Scotch girl. It is very interesting – rather sensational in fact. Robespierre, Danton, Napoleon, the Guillotine ‘La Lanterne,’ a sprinkling of smugglers with a slight dash of wreckers, highly toned Irish, Scotch, French nationalities, a mad woman, suicide, a murder or two &c &c. make up a dish that certainly cannot be considered savourless. There is no great reach of thought, as Mrs Lewes, or Mrs Gaskell have, nor anything like grace & delicacy of touch of Miss Thackeray but it looks to me vigorous firm drawing. I am getting a friend, a critic by profession to look at it. My reading was too much in novel reading vein to enable me to judge. Besides it was done between 11p.m. and 2 a.m. after a [illegible] of day

We shall communicate direct with her.

Yours very sincerely
A. Macmillan

1CMY had asked him to deliver an illumination to her friend Miss Lewis in Philadelphia.
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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/2199/alexander-macmillan-to-charlotte-mary-yonge-59

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