MS British Library Add MSS 54920: 230-311
My dear Mr Macmillan
I think I should enjoy editing a Globe edition of children’s books,2 and am much obliged to you for the proposal. I suppose the question is how many really good ones have exhausted their copy right.
Perhaps Philip Quarl could begin the series, it is really Defoe’s but I doubt if anyone has read it.
I send 9 chapters of the Lion. One object is to make people think of that St Katharine’s charity, and its unhappy state of slumber. I make my heroine end there the heroine [sic] is much too poor a creature for her to marry.
Alas! under the impression they were in type, I made away with those sheets of the parallel history! I am now waiting to go to Winchester to get some large paper ruled for me.
I must try to get matters forward by August, as then the Chaplet is to treat me to a trip to Paris and Val Richer
I am delighted with Miss Winkworth’s number of the Sunday Library.
Yours sincerely
C M Yonge