MS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/9
My dear Miss Butler
I must thank you for the motto, I have a certain liking for Götz partly for Sir W Scott’s sake2 I believe omission /or rather deferring is better than mincing after all, but it is hard to manage to fit all into 80 pages, where the grave, the useful and the gay must each have a fair share, and the dull gets put off & put off till our deferred correspondent sends a piteous entreaty being rabid beneath and MS swells up in print beyond reckoning. I must ask Mr Mozley if he can set up the rest of Likes & Dislikes without too much havoc in his types, for it inconveniences him to have too many absorbed. Did you ever pronounce the cz sounds in Polish and are they as bad to speak as to spell.
When you have no other motto you might take Southey about
A terrible man with a terrible name
A name that by sight you know very well
But no one can speak
& no one can spell.3
I congratulate you on your Scandinavian book.4
yours sincerely
C M Yonge