My dear Mr Macmillan I think I should enjoy editing a Globe edition of children’s books, and am much obliged to you for the proposal. I suppose the question is how many really good ones have exhausted their copy right.

Perhaps Philip Quarl could begin the series, it is really Defoe’s but I doubt if anyone has read it.

I send 9 chapters of the Lion. One object is to make people think of that St Katharine’s charity, ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan I shall see Miss Johns on Saturday and have a consultation with her.

I have been prevented from setting about the Storehouse by the almost sudden death - the first day of this month - of one of my dear cousins - the one on whom I relied for looking out the copies of the books that I was to have from Puslinch. I have not been willing to trouble her sister to ... continue reading

Dear Madam Macmillan published both series of the Store House of Stories. I do not know that the second series is gone out of print, I should think they had it in stock. If not I could lend it to you- or my own old copy of ‘the Puzzle for a curious girl’ which I inherited from my mother, and is somewhere in the house, though I cannot lay my hand on it ... continue reading