MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: MSS. Autogr. c.25 ff 268-9

Dear Miss Manning,
I am sorry not to have been able sooner to answer you and tell you how much I like your friend’s Stone cutter, whom I shall most gladly have in the Monthly Packet, though I am afraid it can hardly be before the end of the year, as though in the enlarged size of the Monthly Packet I can generally get a short self-contained story in every month, I am engaged a good deal in advance with them

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge