MS British Library Add MSS 54921: 140-1

Dear Mr Craik

I have been asked so urgently that I hardly know how to refuse, by a person who knows a good deal of the popular mind at Liverpool (being on the Committee of those Recreation classes, and doing much besides) to write a popular account of the fifty years of the reign, to be dispersed in preparation for the Jubilee Year. She says it ought to cost only sixpence, to be like a succession of stories and profusely illustrated.

What do you think about it? I rather doubt its being enough in your line for you to like to make it as cheap as it must necessarily be to fulfil its purpose? I should try to make it entertaining rather than connected, and keep out of party politics and personalities.

If you did not wish to take it up, I would try what Cassell would say to it, but I would much rather work for you.

Yours truly
C M Yonge