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To the Author of ‘Ella’s Dream’
Elderfield
Febry 10th [1870s?]

MS Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin

Dear Sir,

Many thanks for your paper, which shall certainly go into the Monthly Packet. I have been asked to call for some such spoon meat for a packet of small books for Mr Warne, and as your Elsie’s Dream seems to me just the right thing in length and material for the purpose, I venture to ask if you would object to its so appearing instead of in the Monthly Packet.1 Mr Warne promises £2 for each tale, and I think in this manner it will probably sooner appear.

yours truly
C M Yonge

 

1There was more than one series of ‘Warne’s Victoria Toy Books: A Packet of Twelve Nursery Stories’, and they are treated variously by cataloguers, since they appeared as ‘Edited by the Author of The Heir of Redclyffe’. Some assume this means that CMY wrote them. According to WorldCat the only surviving copy of Ella’s Dream is owned by the University of Florida.

Cite this letter


The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske.

URL to this Letter is: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/yonge/3576/to-the-author-of-%e2%80%98ella%e2%80%99s-dream%e2%80%99

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