AN AGREEMENT made this eighth day of August between MISS CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE  OF Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchesterof the one part and “ARTHUR DONALD INNES and THOMAS SLINGSBY TANNER of 31 and 32 Bedford Street, Strand, W.C. Publishers trading under the name of A.D. Innes & Co. WHEREAS the said A.D. Innes & Co. are the publishers of various works from the pen of the said Miss Yonge and it has been found advisable to alter the prices at which the said works are sold to the trade NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED between the said parties as follows:

In regard to such works as are the property of Miss C.M. Yonge namely “The Beginnings of Church History” “Castle Builders” “Chosen People” “Countess Kate” “Friarswood Post Office” “ Kings of England” “ Lads and Lasses of Langley” “Landmarks of Ancient History” “Langley Little Ones” “New Ground” “Sowing and Sewing” “The Stokesley Secret” “Talks About the Laws We Live Under” “Teachings on the Catechism” “Verses on the Gospels” “Womankind” “Cheap Jack” “Frank’s Debt” and “Wolf” the whole expense shall be debited to the said Miss Yonge and shall be calculated as follows: (a) direct expenses, that is to say all charges of printers binders paper makers stationers advertisers artists or engravers employed in producing the said books no discount being taken into account; (b) indirect expenses of agency establishment and distribution which shall be calculated as ten per cent on the direct outlay. Sales shall be accounted for at half the published price twelve copies counting as twelve. A commission of ten per cent upon the amount of the sales so calculated shall be payable to Messrs A.D. Innes & Co. for their remuneration.² [Added in handwriting] no books shall be reprinted at Miss Yonge’s expense without her permission.

(2) the sums to be paid upon such works by Miss C.M. Yonge as are published by Messrs A.D. Innes & Co. upon royalty shall be as follows

“Ben Sylvester’s Word” Royalty at the rate of 1½d in the shilling on the published price.

“Burnt Out” Royalty at the rate of 2/3 of 1d in the shilling on the published price.

“Landmarks of History of the Middle Ages” Royalty at the rate of 1¾d in the shilling on the published price.

“Langley School” Royalty at the rate of 2/3 of a 1d in the shilling on the published price.

“Pigeon Pie” Royalty at the rate of 1½d in the shilling on the published price.

“Questions on the Catechism” Royalty at the rate of ¾d  in the shilling on the published price.

“Questions on the Collects” Royalty at the rate of ¾d  in the shilling on the published price.

“Railroad Children” Royalty at the rate of 2d in the shilling on the published price.

“Leonard the Lion Heart” Royalty at the rate of 2d in the shilling on the published price.

]“Questions on the Epistles” Royalty at the rate of ¾d per copy.

“Questions on the Gospels” Royalty at the rate of 1d per copy

“Questions on the Prayer Book” Royalty at the rate of ¾d per copy.

“Biographies of Good Women” Royalty at the rate of 5d per copy.

“Kings of England” (cheap edition) Royalty £10 per 1000.

“Langley Adventures” Royalty at the rate of ¾d in the shilling on the published price beyond the first 2000 sold which are free of royalty, in the case of Langley Adventures only: twelve copies counting as twelve in all cases.

If it be found necessary to sell off the stock of any of the books as remainders such sales shall be, if the books are the property of Miss C.M. Yonge accounted for at the actual price received by Messrs A.D. Innes & Co. if the books be those published upon royalty then no royalty shall be payable upon such sales. This agreement shall be binding on the contracting parties their heirs and assigns throughout the whole legal terms of Copyright except in so far as it may be modified by the consent of both parties. This agreement to come into forced as and from first day of July 1892.

[Signed by Innes and Tanner across the 6d stamp and by CMY underneath and with witnesses Charles K. Turner and Henry Bowles.]

My dear Florence

Publishing on commission does mean taking the risk and paying a percentage, above the expenses to the publisher.  It is what I often do, always with Mozley  The round sum for each edition is pleasant, and I don’t think you would get so much in the end by this as by selling copy right.  But if Mr Cowie¹ has answered you and is considering is there much use in my writing to him.  I would do it if it were to ensure his attention, but I think he will give that, and if one writes without necessity, it is rather wasting one’s recommending power and making it less effective when it is really needed  I wish Ward would take the story, but he declined Chardham Fair,² which I thought would have made beautiful illustrations and he has taken such stupid stories instead that I cannot judge of him

your affectionate

C M Yonge

My dear Mr Ashwell

Here is a small photo of the Church of the Resurrection.  There are some larger, but they will not travel so well.  I hope in the lighter days of spring to get one taken of the Reredos, which represent our Lord’s Resurrection, and which was my mother’s gift though she never saw it.  It is very beautiful, but the interior wants colour, and Mr Langlands means to try experiments on it with the Christmas decorations.  I will see whether any thing turns up that will make an interesting review for January, I am afraid the Woman’s Kingdom¹ which I sent you yesterday was rather a dull summary of the story.  I am afraid it is too late to get a mention of the LC into the Decr M P, but I will try, and at any rate there is January.  If Mudie would only send me the books I want, there would be some chance of writing one’s notices in time!  Herewith is one of the translation of the Abbé Perreque, which I own I beheld with dismay, having just set a young friend of my own to work upon it.  However I think it is well done.

We are all torn here about the Oxford election.  My brother and Mr Wither both think they ought to vote for Mowbray,² though it goes sorely against them to oppose Sir R Palmer.  We shall never see the like of Sir Wm Heathcote again, but at least we have him at home less ill than we feared

yours sincerely

C  M Yonge

Sir

I am grateful for what you say of the Scripture Readings, I did consider of the use of paragraphs, but as I meant the book primarily for school reading I though the loss of verses would be inconvenient, and I myself do not like using a paragraph Bible because I can never find anything quickly in it

Perhaps I was actuated by my childish dislike to Lloyd’s Bible which used to seem to me unnatural.

yours truly

C M Yonge

My dear George Huntinford,¹
I hope you will come to luncheon here at one on Tuesday, Talbot from Mr Jeavon’s is I believe also coming I enclose a note for Mr Richardson. No, I have written to Dr Ridding

Yours truly
C M Yonge

My dear Edith

It came safely the next day and you shall have a chapter either rewritten or doctored in time for the New Year which I should think would be the best time to begin.  I suspect the right way to do it would be rounded sketches of periods, each as complete in itself as the space will allow of.  To shew what authority there is in the Acts and Epistles (without having a letter) for the Church System seems to me as if it should be the great object of the first.

Oh dear! how one wonders how good men who have erred in faith are shewn it in the next world, especially when they have ‘taught men so!’

your affectionate

CMYonge

My dear Edith

I suppose you want the cutting down process to be done in time for October, as you speak of three numbers.  If it is for September tell me how soon it is wanted.  The MS did not come with your letter, and if not posted, might return by Mrs Collins on Saturday, unless you would cut down the first chapter yourself, which would be a great kindness as I have my hands full, having a little book on ’how to teach the New Testament[‘]¹ to finish for the National Society, and the Christian Names to correct for a new edition.²

Leave out, if you like the Wounds, but I never doubted that ‘they also which pierced Him’³ referred to one way in which they shall be looked at and ‘the Lamb as It had been slain’⁴  to the way He shewed Himself to St John.

With what rapture

Gaze we on those Glorious scars⁵

I think it is and has been a universal belief in the Church, that we shall see them made radiant and glorified, I suppose, nay, I am certain;  but still there

Surely, the feeling we have for a veteran’s scarred brow shews in a measure the reverence we have for the ‘dear tokens of His Passion’⁶ and I should think the Resurrection Body would have its beauty unchanged by them looking at it not materially.  What the Likeness consists in even St John did not know – but may it not be somehow in expression reflected from His Countenance – as in some measure people do get beautiful as they grow older & better.  I always think that beautiful countenance of the freshly departed is to shew how they will bear the image of the Heavenly.  I should think it would end in the Church Americans taking to the Holy Cross and the Dissenters to the Shut ins – the which has an odd sound to me.

I have often heard of that good lady and had occasional correspondence with her.  I rather dread her as having a considerable flow of ink to the pen, but she is intensely good.  I feel foolish for I saw a charming extract which I thought of sending you, but I was so silly as not to mark it, and now I can’t remember where it was!  I am sorry the Bp of Bedford⁶ cannot come

your affectionate

CMYonge

My dear Edith

Would this be the kind of thing?¹  I suspect it is too long.  It is a beginning I once made and you may as well look at it.  I also send a paper on the study of the Bible, which an American Sunday School Society once made me write and which might serve you some day perhaps.

You see this is a mere beginning, hardly getting beyond the Acts.  Canon Bright wanted me to do a Church history, and I got so far and then quailed – wanting the lash of a serial to keep me up to it.

We seem to be getting on well under the new dynasty, but it has been a strange thing that in one spring the school should lose Vicar, master and pupil teacher²

your affectionate

CMYonge

I was going to cut out the article but on second thoughts I send the whole paper as there are curious things in it