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To John Henry Ingram
Elderfield Otterbourne Winchester
Oct 19th 1886

Dear Sir

I am very sorry if I did not answer your letter, and acknowledge the little book, I fully thought that I had done so.

I have gone quite half way in the Life of Hannah More. If the requisite number of pages be not attained, I can easily shorten or lengthen the account of her works, but I think the length will be right.

I have the Mendip annals - i.e. Patty More’s Journal, which I ... continue reading

To Edward Augustus Freeman
Elderfield Otterbourne Winchester
Oct 29th 1887

My dear Dr Freeman,

How very kind in you, and as you say what a pity I did not know of it in time The history of the thing is this one of the sons of my very old friend, Sir William Heathcote is in Allens firm - He asked me to write one of their eminent women series and as I know Roberts’s history as one knows the Sunday books of one’s youth, I took ... continue reading

To John Henry Ingram
Elderfield
Novr 4th [1887]
Dear Mr Ingram Our proofs have crossed so I will keep the present ones till your corrections have arrived - You will see that I had set right several of the matters you noticed. I will change paved the way into facilitated. Only will you do so in the proof you have for I think that will least confuse the printers. The sentence about principles and cornerstones is quotation so Bishop Horne is accountable for it, and ... continue reading
To Edward Augustus Freeman
Elderfield
June 10th 1889
Dear Mr Freeman, This is delightful and will make the Cunning Woman really worth having. I am afraid I must not keep her to pick up more witchcraft but I should like to know what a witches’ ladder is. The Coleman was a strange chance coincidence. I have changed them all into Coles! The Tayles was a misprint from a mistake of mine undetected - I believe Watts is really ‘Their nature, too-’ I have an old copy ... continue reading