Dear Lady Frederick Your letter came just as I was preparing for the demonstration of a tea for our mothers in preparation for the winter’s meetings. It is difficult to answer about the length of a report. Sometimes they get squeezed up and shortened to their very skeleton, sometimes there is room. Could you write the article so as to serve for the paper on the poorer mothers that I always try to have? The time ... continue reading

My dear Lady Frederick I am afraid I cannot give you more than a week, and that the 6th must be the last possible day. I believe I am going to look over the MSS. with Mrs. Sumner and send them off on the 1st, but we can add your report at the end. I hope you are really recovered from the influenza. People are having it at Winchester, but rather slightly.

I always ... continue reading

Dear Mrs Ritchie How kind in you to write me such a pleasant letter. I like to know that the companions of my life have been beloved by other people. I had actually begun for my own pleasure another link in the Daisy Chain for the Monthly Packet but it was decided that it would weary the public.

I am much enjoying your recollections. I hope you have a great many more still to come.

I was sorry ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I shall be very happy to receive £50 for the American copyright of ‘A Long Vacation’

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan Of course it will not make much difference to me whether ‘the Long Vacation’ appears in April or September, so it had better be arranged as you have decided.

I should prefer the Royalty of /4 on the American Copyright to an immediate sum.

Might I ask, as I have been before encouraged to do, for a copy of Dean Church’s Life and Letters and also for Sonny Sahib

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan I have a story within three or four short chapters of completion, which I should like to mention in case it should come within the scope of any autumn arrangements.

I think the title might be ‘A Release’. It is founded on a story that Guizot once told me that Mongolfier, the aëronaut gained the affections of a noble young lady, whose parents forced her to become a nun. She appealed to the ... continue reading

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

My dear C C Here is a behind the times letter that concerns you. I have heard from Mr Thring, who says I can remove my books with proper notice, but as I don’t know how long proper notice is, I have written to ask, also he thinks there may be trouble about those of which A D I gives Royalty and on the older ones there is no agreement. I asked if ... continue reading