MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection¹

Dear Madam
I am much perplexed about the article ‘Want of Confidence’ – I had two so called sent to me, purporting to be condensations of a lecture given at Winchester, one certainly written by Mrs Field. When it appeare[d] a gentleman wrote and claimed it as his own abstract but Mrs Field was able to prove it was hers, and as yours had the same title I am afraid the copy in type must have been broken up under the impression that it was the duplicate account of the lecture for I cannot find it either in proof or M S and it is the only way I can account for its disappearance.²

I am very sorry not to be able to restore it

If you can tell me how many pages it occupied I will send you some small compensation,

Yours truly
C M Yonge