MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection

Dear Madam
I send two of the books you wish for. The Cross Roads is I find being read to a class of G F S girls, but will be finished by the time you have done with these two. John Brent is by S Baring Gould, one of the penny SPCK series. I know I have it and have read it aloud, but I cannot lay my hand on it this moment.

I have only one copy of the Chimes, which is being read every week so I cannot well send it. Our Mothers are fairly punctual, and the accounts cover the little irregular time so we begin with the Litany provided by the Mother’s Union and then have the religious reading. It is a better time for the Vicar’s being able to come as he does sometimes that[sic] at the end, when the children are apt to get restless

Yours truly
C M Yonge

There is a very good SPCK tract called ‘The Black Copse’¹