My dear Miss Smith, I have been a long time in answering you and thanking you for your story, but I wanted to finish reading it that I might tell you at once all I thought about it. And now I have 1st to enclose you a cheque for the amount due to you for ‘Who will come & do likewise,’ the praises of which I hear on every side; and next to congratulate you on ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

I send you an order for the chapters of the Thorne that have appeared- also another to correct. I think people like it much - your neighbour Miss Wilford was talking about it yesterday she is staying with her aunt at St Cross, and I am always much tempted to betray you

yours sincerely

C M Yonge

The Order is payable to Ann Smith - more names always cause blunders

My dear Miss Smith,

I enclose your cheque. I am very sorry to have kept you waiting so long, but Mr Mozley has not paid me yet, and as I sent him an appeal the other day to see if I could not get our pay raised, I was waiting for his answer though even if it were to raise our terms it would hardly be for this year that is past. I feel very cross ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I enclose a cheque for the amount of the Banks of the Thorne that has gone in this time, and I think has been very much liked.

I have had an offer of Mrs Sherwood’s Life from a person who can get at something about her privately so I thought you would not mind my accepting it, as a little beyond a published memoir is such a gain.

You see the Packet is flourishing ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

Your letter has been following me all over the country and has just reached me here. I am ashamed of the blunder that must have been made somehow, probably by myself, but here I am in Yorkshire out of the way of making out how the error could have happened.

I was terribly hurried while we were preparing to leave home, and did not myself correct the paper of the M P contributions, ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

At last I have made out that last year’s blunder was that one short chapter of 8 pages was entirely missed over in the counting. This half year there are 76 pp, for which the amount is naturally £9. 10- the pound added from last time makes it £10.. 10- and the slight margin Mr Mozley now allows for our good contributors enables me to make it £12.. 10- for which I ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

In great haste, I enclose £10 for this half year’s Thorne

yours sincerely

C M Yonge

My dear Miss Smith

I have certainly made a mess! The fact was this, that two or three years ago, I made a great appeal to get more pay than the 2/6, and the result was a sum sufficient to give at the rate of about /6 per page more to some one article in the number, but not to all. I have no doubt that I then told you I could give you 3/ per ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I desired the proof of the first chapter of the Summer on the Apennines to be sent at once to you - If you are moving about perhaps the best way would be for you to send a card with your address early every months to the printers

Messrs Clay Bread Street Hill London EC

Will you have the payment every month or at the end of the half year, and how shall it be made

Yours truly C ... continue reading

Dear Madam, You are of course perfectly at liberty to reserve the copyright of the Garland for the Year. I should think it would form a very pretty little volume, and I hope, you will find, as I have done, that previous publication in a magazine is rather an advantage than otherwise in afterwards negociating for the publication of a work.

I am sorry not to be able to offer a larger rate of payment, but the ... continue reading

My dear Madam We have had friends staying with us, and have been a good deal employed in shewing as much of our Cathedral &c as could be visited in two or three days, or else I should sooner have thanked you for the very pretty poem, which I received on Sunday morning. I like it very much, and will insert it as soon as I have space, I have not had so much German yet ... continue reading

My dear Madam I sent for a Post-office order today for fifteen shillings, but it did not arrive till after post time. I have put it into another cover as the wise say it should not travel in the same with the letter announcing it. At the same time came the proofs which I enclose, I still think the other notices will not be too late, but you had better if you please mark the places ... continue reading

My dear Madam, The wreaths for these autumn months have been so much smaller that I am sorry to say that there is only 7/6 to send you for this quarter, and here are P.O. stamps to that amount. I have not yet heard what we shall be able to do next year. I think that 'the Lesser Holydays’ is the name that best approves itself to me, what do you think of it. I know ... continue reading

My dear Madam, I enclose your P O order for 11/6 for the last quarter of the Lesser holidays. Mr Mozley promises this next year 1854 to raise his pay to 1/6 per page, so that I hope the Cathedrals will be a little less unworthily paid when you have time and inclination to make them out. Your present of the Garland must be indeed a most precious one, I wish we were not so entirely ... continue reading

Madam I shall be very happy to avail myself of your pretty and pathetic tale of Lucy and Christian Wainwright for the Monthly Packet as soon as I can find space for its appearance, but I fear this may not be immediately as I should be sorry to break up the story into several numbers as the effect would be injured.

My rate of payment is 1/6 per printed page, and on putting this into type I ... continue reading

My dear Madam When I wrote my first letter, I must have been under some hallucination that 52 shillings was £2 2. instead of £2.12. but I am glad the mistake was there instead of in the cheque. Your pretty Household Record came safely this morning, and I have read nearly to the end with much pleasure. I think I like it better than Wishop though not quite so well as the [[otherbook:253]Thorns and ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith It is very odd to send the money in two orders, but when I sent on Saturday the Post Office or I contrived to make a blunder, and the Order arrived for less than your due, so I am afraid you must have the trouble of signing both of these. £1.19 is for the Royal Household, with many thanks, and I have ventured to add a pound for your district if ... continue reading

My dear Miss Roberts, I am very sorry for my very stupid omission. I fancied that I had sent the money before for Ely, but I see it was not so, and I am much obliged to you for reminding me. These stamps should have come before but that our village post office requires a day’s notice when it is called upon for so large a supply.

I hope Lincoln at least will come in your ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith Here is £8..4 for your kind help in the course of the last half year. I think Frances has been entirely successful. The sole criticism I have heard is that she might have found plenty of misery at the West End - but then as her father was a landowner in the East, I think she had every call thither.

Thank you for your promise of a story for that far ... 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

Dear Madam, I am at present in Devonshire whither your letter has followed me but not your MS. which awaits me at home.

I do not think it is easy to judge of a tale by one chapter, and I am not sure that it would not be best to bring your story to a conclusion, and then send me the whole. It is always dangerous to accept without seeing the whole. Perhaps therefore when the story ... continue reading