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To Edward Augustus Freeman
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Sept 11th 1872

My dear Mr Freeman If the Scotsman is prunable, it will be a great relief to Miss Roberts and myself. If we do it at all it will be on the Cameo plan, with a table of contemporary Princes of the Empire at the head of each section. To divide by Emperors’ reigns any time between Frederick II and Maximilian would bring one to the verge of distraction. But I suspect our plan would make us ... continue reading

To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
June 21st 1882

Dear Mr Craik

I shall be happy to accept the terms you propose for the American Edition of my books. I hope they will spell their names better than in an advertisement I saw the other day of Ps and Os- and the Blest Woman of the Family- besides other pleasing inaccuracies

Yours truly C M Yonge

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To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield
July 12th [1884]
Dear Mr Craik Thank you for your letter. Clay has had the first eight chapters of ‘the Two Sides of the Shield', which have come out, but Mr Walter Smith means Clowes for the future to print the Packet, so that he will not have the rest before hand. I suppose it will be about the size of Ps and Qs, but I have not quite wound it up yet. I don’t know whether it will afford ... continue reading