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To Arthur Donald Innes
Elderfield
June 20th [1888]

MS Girton College Cambridge, Yonge IV 3

Dear Mr Innes,

I have just managed to insert time in the notice in my last proof – Is it impossible to consider the separate sheet of class list-? Church history takes up 5 pp this time, and if another 5pp is absorbed, what will be left of the poor old M P- ?1

I suppose £25 is the first sum, but it is curious to find how time and trouble in literary matters are in inverse ration to profit. I could write a story worth £100 at once in a quarter of the time this has taken. I should certainly be glad of the £25 on publication

I send all but the last three chapters

They are corrected but I am afraid of putting them out of reach2

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1The class list was for those who were following the course on English literature in preparation for the Cambridge Higher Local Examinations, see 'Notices to Correspondents' MP (June 1888), 595.
2The work under discussion here was perhaps Preparation of Prayer-book Lessons (London: Smith and Innes, 1888), which was still in course of serialization in MP, but whose appearance in volume form was noticed in 'A Conversation on Books' MP (December 1888), 590.
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The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske.

URL to this Letter is: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/yonge/2883/to-arthur-donald-innes-20

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