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To Arthur Donald Innes
Elderfield
Novr 5th 1888

MS Girton College Cambridge, Yonge IV 6

Dear Mr Innes

The copies to Canon Warburton were for presentation to the Central libraries of our Diocesan Society for Higher Religious Education.1

I imagine that half a sheet will be quite enough, giving me 4 pages besides those for index and title which I always grudge but I cannot tell till I get the list of make up.

I see Chapman and Hall’s M S will not do. I much dislike stories in dialect and indeed I think everyone does except the author, and philologists. What shall I do with it?

I like Pen much better than Tipcat or Our Little Ann.2

My own feeling is that we can hardly be accountable for respectable advertisements I see A South African farm among them and I believe that is far worse than Robert Elsmere3

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1The copies were probably of CMY's Preparation of Prayer-book Lessons.
2These were stories by a Smith and Innes author, Evelyn Whitaker. In 'A Conversation on Books' (MP (December 1888), 590, CMY praised Pen and observed, 'Her style is always charming, but there were too great improbabilities in Tip Cat and Little Ann.'
3A reader had complained that her copy of MP had arrived with advertisements for a novel by Mary Augusta Ward, author of the controversial novel Robert Elsmere.

Cite this letter


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/2896/to-arthur-donald-innes-25

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