Dear Mr Macmillan The first instalment of Golden Deeds shall start tomorrow - it is all ready except one extract.

About the engraving. If a merely typical one, I think a figure rushing between some prostrate form and receiving a murderer’s stroke would express the spirit of the whole.

The individual scenes that seem to tell their story best, and to express the whole in one would be such as Sir Philip Sidney rejecting the water - Horatius ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I am today sending your book to Macmillans 29 and 30 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, and asking if they can give you one of my books to illustrate. It might be a good plan for you to call there, tomorrow or next day. Send up your card and ask for Mr Craik or Mr Macmillan, mentioning my name.

If you cannot call, write, and say how the book shall be returned asking if ... continue reading

Dear Madam

Bishop Jenner tells me that I should apply to you for permission to use two of Dr Neale’s Songs of the Trades in a little book of poetry for children which I am putting together for Marcus Ward The Songs of the Engine Driver and the Silk Thrower are those that I mean, and I may perhaps also wish to have the Ironfounder, as well as the ballad of Aristomenes in the Greek ... continue reading

Sir

I enclose £1.1 for the use of the poem on the Fireside. I believe Mr Ward thought he had enclosed your note, and forgot to do so, and therefore I could not but be mortified at the refusal

yours truly C M Yonge