My dear Christabel

Many thanks. It will be the printers own fault if we are late for they are to keep holiday till Tuesday. I think you are right as to GFS chiefly because there is a continual conjugating of the verb to worry, active & passive I wish the Central would learn not Men’s Societies dont They have made all clergymen hate the concern! I wish I could ... continue reading

My dear Frances

All I know about Juliana Coningsby is in the Cameo of December 1886. I got it out of Carte’s history also Knights, and they both took it from the King’s own account which Pepys wrote down at the time. The adventures were really more curious than Jane Lane’s and I have always wondered whether there were anything not told which prevented them from being made more of. But Carte is too old ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan

I have a story all but finished which I think might be printed before this season is over. It is in 30 chapters and is finished to within 6 of the end.

The difficulty is what to call it. The period is from 1681 to 1696 the chief interest a youth who has been thought a changeling and who disappears for 7 years during which he is supposed to be murdered - but is ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Many thanks for your letter and cheque. I am glad to see your writing again, and that the first dreariness of return has been faced.

I am glad the cheap edition is doing so well, it is capitally got up and bound, and I regret nothing but the Daisy Chain illustrations and those to the Trial. Those to the intermediate edition were much better.

I have had some correspondence about a story of the historical ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I am very glad you approve of ‘the Reputed Changeling’ for a name.

He shall come on the 18th or 19th as soon as I have read him to an old friend and critic with whom I am going to stay on the 11th - when I shall put some last touches and corrections.

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

Here is the Reputed Changeling. It really is a much better story than Beechcroft at Rockstone which was chiefly written to run on with the Monthly Packet and satisfy people insatiable of continuations, so that as a young people’s tale it suffers from being treated as a novel.

Has it gone to Tauchnitz?

What a curious book Reuben Sachs is! Is Amy Levy a genuine Jew- ?

She seems to have stripped off all the illusions, ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Thanks for the last set of my books, and for the Kingsley’s whereof we have been going through a course.

If I might have the payment for the first edition of Beechcroft at Rockstone I should be glad.

I suppose the last volume of Cameos is waiting for its index, but I hope it will be out before the season is over.

The Reputed Changeling is a much better thing I hope than the Rockstone ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Blackburn It was very pleasant to see your writing again after so many years! Our intercourse used to be in the early ages, though I have kept up hearing of you from Lady Blachford, whom I saw last summer settle again at Cornwood to the great joy of the inhabitants.

I am glad you are to bring out so many of your works. I hope that congregation of terns that I once saw in ... continue reading