MS Mrs Clare Roels
My dear Christabel
It certainly used to be considered the thing to give the publisher of the magazine the refusal of the story but there is so much more free trade in publishing now that I do not know whether this is still necessary. I think most likely Masters would say he did not want to have it particularly.
No, I think Miss Ingelow has diverged plentifully from you, except in the original idea.1 Here is another suggestion- make a general drawing, and have the babies both stripped while their belongings are insensible. You might have let the mother of the bad one die at his birth, and quite drawn one or both nurses- then if the mother did not recover for some weeks, I think the identifying would be impossible, especially as you have the further advantage of the family likeness being all the same.
I was interrupted by a call from Mr Walter Brock whose whole desire seems to be to alter as little as possible.2 I believe he will begin about the first week in June, only avoiding the having to inflict the 39 articles on us on Whitsunday. I have been staying with the Awdrys at Chichester in Canon Ashwell’s house.3 Mrs Ashwell is going back to live at Chichester
your affectionate
C M Yonge