My dear Miss Smith

I am glad I know you are at home that I may send you not lost but found. I have, as you desired me, taken great liberties with the correction. I think that what I have chiefly to observe is that you have here and there made it obscure by elliptical writing, and that you must beware of now which comes very often over, and I used, by my home critic, to ... continue reading

My dear Miss Peard,

You are a most comfortable correspondent and contributor, and it will be very pleasant to us to have the print of St. Sebastian which your friend has so kindly procured for us.

We shall be wandering for two or three months to come but it will be sure to reach me safely if sent either direct here, or to the care of Messrs Mozley 6 Paternoster Row. Which perhaps will be the best ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Gatty, In haste, with all the proofs on my hands, and going out to tea - here are the sonnets - I left out the first as being holy day, rather than Sunday, and belonging to next year’s series

Please let them go straight to Mozley’s and I should be glad of more for February.

I hope you are not overwhelmed with M. Macé in his second volume, I am sure the work must be ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Elder, In some inexplicable way your sonnet for the collect for the Annunciation has disappeared. Could you—if you have a copy—be so kind as to send it by the next post—direct to

Messrs. Mozley Friar’s Gate Derby,

as they are leaving a gap for it. How it was missed between us I cannot guess. I have all the others, quite safe up to June 29th. I hope you will excuse the blunder, and that it will ... continue reading

My dear Arthur Your letter and the book arrived together yesterday just as I was setting off from home so that I could only glance at it, and see that ‘Polly’ is likely to be very much edified by it, and to thank you very much.

Pray excuse my having written the wrong way of my paper, I have only just found it out. Here is a chapter of Polly come, which I enclose. Being away from ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Harte

If you can spare the 12th chapter of Disobedient Cecil please send it direct to Messrs Mozley at Derby, as they want to set it up

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Frere

You have chosen a very cold summer for your visit to England and I am afraid you must think you have come there in the winter by mistake. We have had some revolutions in the state of the Monthly Packet, a new partner at Mozley’s and a new printer, and my effort for some time past has been to get old material finished up. I have still so many verses on hand ... continue reading

My dear Mr Price

Mr Walter Smith took the Mozleys’ business when John Mozley died and Charles retired. He was trained at Macmillans and I think he knows his profession (or what ever it is to be called) thoroughly. He is a gentleman and pleasant to deal with in all ways. I do not know the present Parker, as my dealings were with his father, but I prefer Mr Smith greatly to J ... continue reading

Dear Madam My cousin answers me ‘the Lotus is not a flower, but a large tree, I do not remember the blossom, but the fruit is in large pods which the Zantiotes almost live on, we used to have them as vegetables at dinner but I always thought them very nasty. It was always called the locust tree, and it was disputed whether it was these Locusts or the insects that St John the Baptist used ... continue reading

Dear Madam I send you the proof of the Garland, which you had better return direct to

Messrs Mozley Friar Gate Derby

His printers are apt to make great havoc with botanical names, and then put puzzled queries in the margin which amuse me very much. I could not find St Gundula in Alban Butler, and so must leave that correction to you. You will see that I have made one or two little alterations. I did not like ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith I hope and trust the tale is safe, I sent it off with the letter on Saturday, in a brown paper cover and a shilling stamp which our post office told me was the sufficient sum. If it be not come, we must write to the General Post Office but I hope to hear it is all right, as I know the book post will sometimes detain a heavy parcel for a ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith, I am sorry this came just too late to send to you at home as you wished. It was too late to write and hurry the people at Derby to print it, so I could only wait for the chance of its coming in time. The last thing I heard about it was from the writer of the Cheshire Pilgrims Frances Dysart is delightful. I am glad you ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes I think as you propose Langley Adventures ‘Langley School’ Royalty at the rate of 2/3 of a 1d in the shilling on the published price. ‘Langley Adventures’ Royalty at the rate of ¾d in the shilling on the published price beyond the first 2000 sold which are free of royalty, in the case of Langley Adventures only: twelve copies counting as twelve in all cases.’ might be transferred to you, and the ... 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 Sir I have been so much interested by the book you have kindly sent me, in common with rest of the Author’s Society and, having had a little correspondence with you many years ago, when you were editing the English Plutarch, I venture to write, thinking you may care to hear some experiences of a long life of writing, not from necessity but because I had something to say.

The passion for telling a story developed ... 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

My dear Mrs Elder,

In some inexplicable way your sonnet for the collect for the Annunciation has disappeared. Could you—if you have a copy—be so kind as to send it by the next post—direct to

Messrs. Mozley Friar’s Gate Derby,

as they are leaving a gap for it. How it was missed between us I cannot guess. I have all the others, quite safe up to June 29th. I hope you will excuse the blunder, and that it will ... continue reading