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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
Dear Mr Macmillan I have been looking for Innes’s accounts, (I send the agreement drawn up with him and Tanner in /93.) but there is no mention of the Castle builders in it nor in any of the subsequent accounts, which go to /96. I cannot find a later one, though I should have thought there would have been one in /97.
I think the book must have been out of print when he took the ... continue reading
My dear C C I am doing my best to write to Macmillan I think it is our only hope and rather a forlorn one- and explaining some of its history and scope hoping not to say too much or too little, nor to shew personal feeling
But I am sure it is a thing to be considered how to have a high class magazine for young persons, as I have been telling him and ... continue reading
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
Dearest Jay
I find I have a copy of the Shield which you are welcome to keep, I never did any more to the volumes than this, only imagined it. I found when I was half through the Shield that I had used the name of Merrifield before, in the Stokesley Secret. . .