MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection1
Dear Madam
As far as I can remember the first four tales were
Redclyffe
Heartsease
Hopes and Fears
Dynevor Terrace
because I meant them to have some sort of analogy to the four seasons2
The Daisy Chain
Trial
are really connected, and the Pillars of the House came later but picked up on Countess Kate and the Daisy Chain in the course of the story –
Scenes and Characters had been written long before, but was taken up again in Two Sides of the Shield where also an early story the Stokesley Secret furnished some characters –
Beechcroft At Rockstone
Strolling Players
The Long Vacation
make up the story
The others are all disconnected except
The Chaplet of Pearls
Stray Pearls
The Release –
Some of the persons in Magnum Bonum and Hopes and Fears are referred to again
Yours truly
C M Yonge