Dear Mr Innes

Next year’s programme is my own Two Penniless Princesses - historical longish chapters. Miss Agnes Giberne has promised a story - and the Storm in a Teacup has to go on another half year I tried doubling the chapters, but there was not room. I think it is a mistake to sacrifice the story to the volume, as often in those I read, I see the development has been injured to get ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I have just finished a story called ‘Two Penniless Princesses’ about the two daughters of James I of Scotland who went to visit their sister, the wife of the future Louis XI, and found her just dead. It is in 12 chapters, each taking from 12 to 16 pp of the Monthly Packet, where half has appeared. It is to be finished there in December. Is it well to take any steps ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I much fear that you may be, like all the world, taking holiday for there is a scheme on which I much wish to consult you and Mr Macmillan, and which needs to be matured before the Church Congress in October.

I must explain that a good while ago, a society [was started] for raising the tone, religious and moral of the cottage women in a Hampshire town-village. This has spread till now ... continue reading