Dear Madam I am very sorry I cannot help you to Ben Sylvester. I have not even one of my own except in a bound up volume, and the copyright is not mine. But if you enquired for it direct from Innes they might find a last copy, or be stirred to a reprint.

yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Cousin Mary,

I am glad you like my books. I think there are one or two more that you have not seen, the Stokesley Secret which is about the size of Countess Kate, and is most of it fun, Kenneth, which is about a boy and girl in the Retreat from Moscow, and some short stories for poor children, called Langley School, Friarswood Post office, Leonard the Lion heart and [[cmybook:25]Ben Sylvester’s ... continue reading