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To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield
July 10th 1884
Dear Mr Craik I shall have a child’s book called ‘The Two Sides of the Shield' ready to come out about next Easter as it will be finished in the Monthly Packet about that time. I feel as if I ought to express my great regret that there has been such a story as the Author of Beltraffio in the Eng Illustrated Magazine. Surely it will only tend to make sceptically inclined people averse from devout faith ... continue reading
To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield
July 12th [1884]
Dear Mr Craik Thank you for your letter. Clay has had the first eight chapters of ‘the Two Sides of the Shield', which have come out, but Mr Walter Smith means Clowes for the future to print the Packet, so that he will not have the rest before hand. I suppose it will be about the size of Ps and Qs, but I have not quite wound it up yet. I don’t know whether it will afford ... continue reading
To Mrs Wathen
Elderfield Otterbourne
March 4th [1897]

Dear Madam As far as I can remember the first four tales were Redclyffe Heartsease Hopes and Fears Dynevor Terrace

because I meant them to have some sort of analogy to the four seasons

The Daisy Chain Trial are really connected, and the Pillars of the House came later but picked up on Countess Kate and the Daisy Chain in the course of the story -

Scenes and Characters had been written long before, but was taken up again in [[cmybook:184]Two Sides of ... continue reading

To the Hon. Mrs Montgomery Moore
Elderfield
Novr 12th [after 1885]

Dearest Jay

I find I have a copy of the Shield which you are welcome to keep, I never did any more to the volumes than this, only imagined it. I found when I was half through the Shield that I had used the name of Merrifield before, in the Stokesley Secret. . . ... continue reading