MS Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Gratz Collection: Case 11, Box 10:British Literary Misc

My dear Mrs Latimer
Thank you very much for the adventure in the Night Express which is just the thing; either as Christmas number or short story, I am not quite sure which, any way I am very glad of it. We are more open to short articles now so I should like to have your Civil engineer again. I was sorry to part with it though I had never used it

I return that very interesting sad letter. How beautifully the poor mother has borne it, only glad to rescue other children. In the village next us, about 12 years ago a little 4 year old boy vanished – his parents went to look at various waifs in vain, and at last in hay time, his body was found in some reeds far down the river near which they had come to live. A lady had noticed him playing in a dangerous place and warned his mother who called him in – but he must have stealed out again. My nephew is going back at the end of the month. He thanks you much for all your kind invitations, and hopes to avail himself of them one of these days. He has amused us much with his account of Middlesborough. He thinks it is sure to have escaped that most awful tornado I hope you felt nothing of it, as he says they are so narrow. What good readers your Baltimore people are! It is always interesting to know what books are most taken[.] I am afraid novels predominate at all our Free Libraries but a friend of mine who manages a library for factory girls in Cheshire, says she finds that they work upwards to a taste for further information

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge