My dear Augusta

I don’t know how it is but there never seems to be room in the Packet. I cannot get in my own Cameos, nor finish up the Three Brides as I meant to have done by two chapters at a time. When I began the York & L Rose I thought both it and Dt Cecil would end at Midsummer, and now I find that they will last on into next ... continue reading

Miss Yonge is glad to be able to inform Mr Hoskins that the 1st volume of the Beginnings of Church history is nearly printed and will soon be out. A large number of orders for it is the only way of cheapening it. Miss Yonge fears the Societies would not accept the book without omissions to which she could not consent.

Dear Mr Innes I shall be glad to have fresh editions of Beginnings of Christian History and of the Pigeon Pie.

My engineering nephew has routed up an atlas of Keith Johnstone of manageable size. If that does not prove sufficient I shall try Cassell

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan I have been looking for Innes’s accounts, (I send the agreement drawn up with him and Tanner in /93.) but there is no mention of the Castle builders in it nor in any of the subsequent accounts, which go to /96. I cannot find a later one, though I should have thought there would have been one in /97.

I think the book must have been out of print when he took the ... continue reading