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Dear Mr Macmillan,
Miss Sewell and I think that it would be worth while to go on at our own expense rather than suffer the scheme to drop - since completeness is the thing it really wants to make it useful and popular. But we are inclined to try whether the Clarendon press would take it, and shall make that attempt before trying our own resources.
Herewith I send the Cameos - there are four or five ... continue reading
My dear Mr Macmillan You will think there is no end to the irons we have in the fire. But the Population of an Old Pear Tree would be finished if we had not lost a number, and had to renew it. I send you the earlier chapters. The places for the woodcuts are marked in the margin.
But my chief reason for writing is to ask if you have heard of Beugnot’s memoirs - he was ... continue reading