My dear Driver I rather doubted about sending you Cyrus, because, as you will see, he does not stand alone, but is a chapter of general history and therefore is not very minute, nor has he been written more than once, so that you must excuse numerous deficiencies and please to let me have him again. To my shame be it spoken I have not read Clarendon; we ought to have read him aloud ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes, I hope there are still some Castle builders left for a lady in Portugal wrote a few days ago to ask me if it was still to be had, and I answered that it was. I suppose the Modern Landmarks are put out by later books.

I am concerned about a long series of scientific papers on the physical structure of the Earth. I accepted them some time ago from Miss Gaye and spoke ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes The Castle Builders and Six Cushions are out of date, and need not be reprinted- unless as is just possible, Macmillan might like to purchase them for the sake of making up the set of my books.

Questions on the Epistles has never been of much use, so few Sunday Schools go on far enough to want them Nor has Sewing and Sowing been popular. I am sorry for Langley Little Ones for ... continue reading

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

Dear Miss Higginbotham I think you will find the beginning of the stories in the Castle builders & Countess Kate, which are in the hands of Innes, 31 Bedford Street Covent Garden.

Yours truly C M Yonge