MS Mrs Clare Roels/84
My dear C C
I am doing my best to write to Macmillan I think it is our only hope and rather a forlorn one- and explaining some of its history and scope hoping not to say too much or too little, nor to shew personal feeling1
But I am sure it is a thing to be considered how to have a high class magazine for young persons, as I have been telling him and of the general wail for it! So we launch the life boat or rather the rocket-
I think it is better for you to be out of sight of poor Lanty-
Margaret Roberts and Di go to Min y don today if that is the name of it
We had a splendid school feast yesterday, neither too hot nor too cold nor too damp nor too anything.
I have had a famine of books and read up all the old ones of my own, and the result is that Arthurine /(Come to her Kingdom)\ appears at Rockquay and utters an advanced woman’s address to the High School and other auditors, which fires Agatha not unwholesomely Arthurine goes rather in the Lady Warwick /and emancipation\ style Bessie Merrifield follows up with the duty of emancipated woman to Church &c2
The byplay is that her naughty brother Hal – of Stokesley, had been Magdalen’s lover /very ?haginlory- He had been sent out to Canada to his brothers had got into speculations with a swindling man fled with him, carrying off his brother’s savings, and had never been heard of more except that after years, the sum was returned to them without a clue. It turns out finally that he – name changed- had been Fulbert Underwood’s partner in a sheep farm- and had nearly married Angela, only Fulbert was sure there was an old ?sclutrose. Then all as I said before. I suppose you would not like to do a new woman bit for Agatha with Dolores. Or think of some ?parharshy
your affte
C M Yonge