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Sir, I have now heard from Messrs Longman, so that I can proceed in the matter on which I wrote to you some weeks since.
I should be obliged if you would let me know whether you would undertake my works hitherto in Messrs Parker’s hands, namely
the stock and stereotypes being transferred to you. All these have been hitherto on commission, ... continue reading
Dear Sir,
My brother will call on you on Wednesday morning, the 2nd, unless he should hear from you to the contrary. His address is J.B. Yonge Esq
9 Montague Place
Bryanston Square.
I have just heard that there are 50 copies of the Lances of Lynwood ordered, and that there are none in stock.
I think a new edition should be put in hand at once, it is a childs book, with designs by Mrs Blackburn ... continue reading
Dear Madam,
I have got all your books now from Messrs Longmans & have been distributing the enclosed circular through the booksellers all over the country, so there ought now to be no uncertainty or difficulty on the part of any bookseller getting your books. But it may be a little time before all chance of misunderstanding ceases. We are advertising your books together as widely & well as we can.
I think it would be as ... continue reading
My dear Miss Yonge I suppose you would like to have the 'Trial' stereotyped. This can be done now at nearly the same cost as the Composition would be hereafter. For readjusting the page and having stereotype plate cast the expense would be £68. I do not know how you have arranged the matter on former occasions. But I suppose that you would probably prefer to purchase the plates and have them as your own property.
The ... continue reading
My dear Mr Macmillan, I suppose the Trial ought to be stereotyped that it may stand on the same footing with the other books. In all the former cases I have been at the whole expense of printing, paper, binding &c, and have thus had all the profits, except the commission on the sales - I think the arrangement with regard to the Trial was that I was to receive £200 for 2,000 copies; I conclude ... continue reading
My dear Mr Macmillan, This is a quick fire upon a busy man, but there are two or three things to say, and first that Mme de Witt has written to say that the Christian Names have not reached her, and asking whether you have sent them through any Paris bibliothèque where they could be enquired for. I also enclose a direction to which I should like to send a copy of the Golden Deeds. It ... continue reading
Dear Mr Macmillan Somehow my direction book has been faithless and I have missed Mr Masson’s address, so I am sending the new chapters of Dove etc. direct to you. I am afraid the story may be thought to flag a little just here, but I could not help it, and there is plenty of incident to come after the next division.
I think Miss Sewell’s idea was to divide by periods. I think I should ... continue reading
My dear Mr Macmillan, Many, many thanks[.] the birthday for which the Heroes were wanted comes tomorrow, so nothing can be more convenient. The Lances look very well
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Alice, With all our best birthday - 20-year-old - wishes, we send a peculiar assortment of presents,. 1. Eau de Cologne from the most genuine-looking place in Cologne. 2. ‘The Lances of Lynwood,’ hoping the Black Cats will not frighten Edward. 3. I doubt whether it is in your special line, but Mamma's heart was so grieved by hearing of the bereaved canary sitting disconsolate - and as she is ... continue reading
My dear Sir I am much obliged for the draft for £300 which I received this morning as well as for the book which accompanied it.
I am glad to hear that the Lances of Lynwood have begun to go off so fast
Yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Mrs Blackburn, The price of the binding was /6½ per volume, as that blue is an expensive cloth, and the binding of an illustrated book is always more expensive, because the plates have to be sewn in separately. I must say that I have a suspicion that you had divided the sum total by 1000 instead of 2150, for certainly 1/4 would have been almost enough to bind a quarto. The paper is included ... continue reading
Dear Mr Craik I shall be very happy to have the Little Duke and the Dove in the Eagle’s Nest manipulated for schools. I should think there would be little to do to the Little Duke as it was written for children. I should have thought the Lances of Lynwood more suitable than the Dove as being on English history.
I know the Eversley country is full of beauty, I once drove through it. I believe there ... continue reading
Dear Mr Macmillan I shall be very glad that the Rubies of St Lo should be published as you propose, I receiving /4 per copy sold. Thanks for the two school Lances of Lynwood. I am only just come home from Devon or I should have written sooner
Yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingDear Mrs Drew, I am almost certain that the Little Duke and the Lances of Lynwood are published in chapter form for school children’s reading and our schoolmistress told us she had seen Kenneth advertised as abridged for School reading - I know Arnold wrote to me for permission and I told him he might use it, if he could arrange with Parker of Oxford, who published it when I knew nothing of arrangements. Macmillan has ... continue reading