MS British Library Add MSS 54921: 66-67
Dear Mr Macmillan
Can you kindly give me a little advice. I have a history in many chapters which I too easily accepted for the Monthly Packet without reading more than a chapter or two at the beginning1 I find it very poor language, costing me much cobbling and apt to turn out rather worse than better for all I can do to it
If I give it up, has the writer the power to demand compensation? Is the bargain tacitly made for ‘better for worse’ – ? I suppose I ought to have read all the chapters through but they only came in by degrees, the writing is bad, and time failed. If you will tell me what I am bound to do I should be very much obliged
Yours sincerely
C M Yonge