My dear Mrs Blackburn, We are rather in distress for the eight folds of paper, as the width of the back depends on them, and orders should be given to the binder, so if they have not set off would you have them sent to me at Deer Park, Honiton, whither it seems finally settled that we are to go on Monday. If you could also send me the impressions of the other illustrations we could ... continue reading

My dear Miss Butler Many thanks for your last kind letter which I fear you will not think I requite well with halving the present chapter, but it is an unusually long one, and has a good resting place in it, and I am anxious to put in a whole paper on the Colyseum, which has much interest in it. I have no doubt you will manage to make Aunt Theresa satisfactorily personal and not ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan

One of my very first ventures in publishing was ‘Kenneth: or the Rear Guard of the Grand Army’. J.H. Parker of Oxford published it, on the half profits system, I retaining the copyright. There were two or three editions but it has gone out of print, though I am sometimes asked how to get it.

Also, about 1850 and 52, Masters published Henrietta’s Wish, and the Two Guardians, republished from the Churchman’s Companion. Both ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I think it might be well to republish Kenneth. I would add a preface of apology for blunders

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan I believe I wrote before and asked whether you thought it worth while to revive two or three books of mine that have gone out of print. I have been asked about them again, which leads me to write. ‘The Two Guardians’ and ‘Henrietta’s Wish’ were published by Masters and went through three editions at least, then I heard no more of them and his business has been given up. The copyright ... continue reading

Dear Mrs Drew, I am almost certain that the Little Duke and the Lances of Lynwood are published in chapter form for school children’s reading and our schoolmistress told us she had seen Kenneth advertised as abridged for School reading - I know Arnold wrote to me for permission and I told him he might use it, if he could arrange with Parker of Oxford, who published it when I knew nothing of arrangements. Macmillan has ... continue reading

My dear Cousin Mary,

I am glad you like my books. I think there are one or two more that you have not seen, the Stokesley Secret which is about the size of Countess Kate, and is most of it fun, Kenneth, which is about a boy and girl in the Retreat from Moscow, and some short stories for poor children, called Langley School, Friarswood Post office, Leonard the Lion heart and [[cmybook:25]Ben Sylvester’s ... continue reading