MS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/221
My dear Arthur
Your letter and the book arrived together yesterday just as I was setting off from home so that I could only glance at it, and see that ‘Polly’ is likely to be very much edified by it, and to thank you very much.
Pray excuse my having written the wrong way of my paper, I have only just found it out. Here is a chapter of Polly come, which I enclose. Being away from all my books, I make no doubt there are more mistakes in it uncorrected than usual indeed I am sure there is one in the Greek word for voice, but as I cannot feel sure of correcting it right I leave it for you.
If there is no more to be done to it than rectifying a word or sentence here and there please to send it to Mozley, according to the direction on it. If there is anything for me to see to, I shall be here till Friday – (I believe though that Wednesday evening’s post from Wantage is the last that will catch me here) Here, I should say is Sir J T Coleridge’s Heath’s Court, Ottery St Mary. I get home on Saturday sleeping a night at the Palace at Salisbury. I suspect there was a mistake in the last Polly in making the causal a voice instead of a kind of verb.
I have just seen the Solicitor general and his wife off to London, I think you will find your quarters exceedingly amusing and pleasant
With my love to everybody at the Vicarage
yours sincerely
C M Yonge