MS British Library Add MSS 54921: 245-6

Dear Mr Macmillan
I am asking Mr Medley (The Rev John Medley Tyntesfield, Bristol) to write to you direct about his Grandfather’s drawing.¹ It is rather a question what he may feel able to do, as it does not belong to him but to his cousin. It is in a book, but whether only fastened in, or bound up I cannot tell

I have told him that in either case, book or drawing would be quite safe with you. It is a very beautiful and characteristic sketch and should have Mr Bacon’s name.

Here is an addition to be sent to the printer. Lady Heathcote (being past 80) could not find it at first and her daughters did not like to press the matter, I do not like notes encumbering pages but if the alteration to the text is too much this might go as a note at the end of the first chapter

I send the proofs through Miss Heathcote so as to be secure from mistakes, as she is much more accurate than myself, besides having local knowledge on the Hursley side

Yours truly
C M Yonge