Copy outletter book British Library Add MSS.55387 (2): P. 907
Dear Miss Yonge
Yesterday Mr Craik paid £200 into Hoare’s in your a/c. I hope my not telling you before will have caused you no [illegible]
I am very sorry you do not like the illustrations.1 It is now impossible to get fresh ones done, and pardon me saying I really like them. I hope you will get reconciled to them by and by
[Rest of letter indecipherable as is the one, dated 22 January 1868, that follows]