MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection, CO171: Box 291
My dear Mrs Johns,
Thank you for your kind invitation but I never know how to get out early enough for a one o’clock luncheon. Helen’s lessons last me till half past eleven, and if I do not work from that time till two, I can get nothing done, and as I am going from home the week after next, I am more hurried than is convenient, so that I cannot well spare the morning hours. I will bring in some spare M Ps with the story and hope to appear between half past three and four on Saturday.2
If it were not for more than usual work, I would gladly come to your early dinner.
I will send the papers to Miss Sewell. With many thanks
Yours sincerely
C M Yonge