Dear Mr Macmillan, Thanks. A parcel sent to me on Friday directed not to Winchester, but to Bishopstoke Station would be nearly sure to come in time, but we often have delays at Winchester. I am sending the revise of the preface today.

I will write about the other copies - but I have not time to write out the addresses at this moment. I rather regret the view of Ulm. General illustrating of the whole set ... continue reading

My dear Anne It is enough to frighten one to see all one’s words taken so seriously, not that I did not really mean them, but perhaps I spoke more freely from not thinking you would attach so much weight to what so young and so flyaway a person might say. However it is quite right to feel that words have weight. I think I must begin from henceforth to assure you that you ... continue reading

My dear Driver Thank you for all your encouragement with regard to Henrietta; I assure you I mean to have my own way, and if the Churchman finds he has caught a Tartar, he must make the best of it. I am very angry with Sister’s Care, for it has done the very thing I wished not to have been done, that is to say, in one way I am glad of it, for I ... 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