MS British Library Add MSS 54921: 236-8

Dear Mr Macmillan
I delayed my answer till I had communicated with the Heathcote family – at whose request chiefly this history of Hursley has been undertaken.

I rather expected them to demur at making the book so expensive to buyers, and was thinking over the possibility of starting with it much abridged, leaving out the Plan and the Customs of Merdon Castle, the Birds Flowers, descriptions of parishes and Words – and most of the illustration so as to have a small cheap handbook ready for chance buyers at the time of the anniversary

But they do not propose this, so that unless you see your way to two simultaneous editions, we had better hold to the 8/6 one. You do not mention terms, and a royalty on the 1st edition would in some ways [be] convenient.

Most of the illustrations belong to Lady Heathcote and are to be sent to me in a day or two, when I will select from them and send them up.

Could you however get the map of the two parishes reduced from the Ordnance map?

Also, the latest and best views of Otterbourne Church are to be had exterior

from Salmon
Photographer
High Street
Winchester

Interior
Oakley
Park Street
Upper Market Green
Eastleigh

The best photographs of Hursley Church and Vicarage are by Frith – (I do not know the address)

I suppose there is copyright in all these – but I do not know what arrangements are made about them. So that had better be left to you.

I have an excellent photograph from a likeness of Mr Keble drawn by Bacon the sculptor, which we should wish to have The likeness of Sir William Heathcote is from a picture by Richmond in the County Hall at Winchester. I suppose the copyright is safe

I send Mr Keble’s – I know we may have that-

I do think that the few chapters about the building of Hursley, would even without photographs go off very fast locally
The large full edition would sell, but more slowly among friends.

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge