MS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1882/ 1

My dear Miss Smith

I hope to begin upon your story in April but could you be so kind as just so to touch the beginning as to take out the allusions to Manners makyth man, or people will trace that it was meant for the Christmas number. Could you let me have it again about the 1st of March.

And one thing, could not the name be reversed, for I think the young people really were ‘less than kin and more than kind’ instead of exactly as the quotation is.

yours sincerely
C M Yonge