You really must beg, borrow or steal something to help me. After this winter I shall get on better, but there are The Two Guardians and the Landmarks of History to finish before I can feel really at ease in giving my mind to this affair. I am rather afraid of spoiling the Landmarks by getting into a hurry. If you can send me something, I think we could meet the ... continue reading

Sir I am obliged to you for forwarding the cheque for £25 for the first edition of the Two Guardians.

I am at present too much engaged to think of publishing anything in the Churchman’s Companion, though I am obliged to you for the proposal.

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Sir, My new tale of ‘Heartsease or The Brother's Wife’ is now complete. I am willing to publish it in the same manner as the ‘Heir of Redclyffe’ and if you are ready to undertake it, will forward it to you, as soon as I have heard from you. At your convenience, I should be glad to know the state of the account of The Little Duke.

Yours faithfully, C M Yonge

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 Mrs Blackburn, The price of the binding was /6½ per volume, as that blue is an expensive cloth, and the binding of an illustrated book is always more expensive, because the plates have to be sewn in separately. I must say that I have a suspicion that you had divided the sum total by 1000 instead of 2150, for certainly 1/4 would have been almost enough to bind a quarto. The paper is included ... 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 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 Mr Macmillan I am glad you see your way to publishing these books on the half profit system I send the Two Guardians and Henrietta’s Wish shall follow, as soon as we can supply the first two pages which are gone from the only copy I can find

Yours truly C M Yonge