MS Girton College Cambridge, Yonge IV 19

Dear Mr Innes
I am very sorry to see Miss Cheape’s proof did not reach her. You told me about a month ago that she had sent a fresh address but as I had sent her the proof of Mr Valentine full a month before – (or rather I knew it had been sent) I did not suppose it applied People never forward proofs, they always take them for advertisements.

By the by today’s post brings me a complaint of this advertisement fastened into the Packet – I am afraid there is no escaping what to me is an absolute nuisance, and if other people were like me would be a detriment to the sale of things so obtruded.

The Newbery magazine writes to ask for my biography – I answer that I have always set my face against publishing people’s lives when they are alive, and that I decline decidedly.

I think I had better write to Miss Gaye that not being proprietor, my editorial engagements must always be subject to the arrangements of the publisher, so that the new plan throws me out.

I do not know if it is personal feeling but I had rather make the Cameos shorter than leave them out alternately. I know (for instance) that they are the one thing the Dean of Lincoln always reads.

However, it is impossible to please everybody. I thought the call was for more, not fewer miscellaneous articles

Yours truly
C M Yonge