My dear Miss Smith, I have been waiting to answer you till I had read far enough on in your storyx to be able to judge, and now being within a quire and a half of the end, I think I can do so. I think the history of the elder Juliet very original and excellent and I like that about young Josie very much likewise, she is a very winning buoyant creature, but indeed I ... continue reading

Miss Yonge would wish the following presentation copies of the Trial to be sent - if they have not already been sent, - she is not certain whether Messrs Macmillan had her list and should wish to guard against any being sent twice over - Copies to be sent to

Miss Coleridge Heaths Court

Care of JD Coleridge Esq 6 Southwark Crescent

also to -

Sir William Heathcote Bart M P 91 Victoria Street

Mrs Pode 3 Craven Place Westbourne Terrace

Miss [[person:1582]Anne ... continue reading

Miss Yonge would be much obliged if Messrs Macmillan would send a copy of each of her works to the Vnble Archdeacon Badnell Care of H J Dunell Esq 4 Upper Hyde Park Gardens W

Miss Yonge would be much obliged if Messrs Macmillan would send three copies of the Heir of Redclyffe directed to

Miss Buffham Miss Sturges Bourne’s Testwood Southampton

My dear Mr Freeman,

I am going to take two or three days more that I may finish up Philip IV and his three disagreeable sons, who will complete the 2nd chapter - the 3d is to be the Hundred Years War, the 4th the Italian wars, the 5th must go from Louis XIII to the end of Louis XV, and ought to be called the Absolutism of the King. I expect you will find ... continue reading

Miss Yonge would be obliged if Messrs Macmillan would send copies of each of her works to

Sister Elizabeth St Mary’s Home Wantage

Also one copy of the Heir of Redclyffe for herself

Miss Yonge would be obliged if Messrs Macmillan would send to

the Revd R Bigg Wither St Thomas’ Home Basingstoke

a copy of each of

The Heir of Redclyffe Heartsease The Daisy Chain The Trial Pillars of the House Scripture Readings with comment Pupils of St John

Miss Yonge would be obliged if Messrs Macmillan would send a copy of the Story of the Christians and Moors to Madame de Witt, Boulevarde Hausseman Paris

Dear Madam

The illustrations are most beautiful and I am very much struck with the expressiveness and good drawing of all the animals. Unfortunately I have mislaid your first letter and cannot refer to it, so that I am not sure whether it was sent with a view to future publications, or to plans of publishing it.

I have no power to change my own illustrators, but if you liked, I could send it to Macmillans ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I am today sending your book to Macmillans 29 and 30 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, and asking if they can give you one of my books to illustrate. It might be a good plan for you to call there, tomorrow or next day. Send up your card and ask for Mr Craik or Mr Macmillan, mentioning my name.

If you cannot call, write, and say how the book shall be returned asking if ... 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

My dear Christabel

I suppose you are beginning daily life again. When in some ways it is so hard When it feels as if there were so few in the house, and yet when people talk it gets into a whirl and one does not care about it, and oh! the letters that seem as if they would never get themselves written. I suppose you stay where you are and in that way are much ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes The Castle Builders and Six Cushions are out of date, and need not be reprinted- unless as is just possible, Macmillan might like to purchase them for the sake of making up the set of my books.

Questions on the Epistles has never been of much use, so few Sunday Schools go on far enough to want them Nor has Sewing and Sowing been popular. I am sorry for Langley Little Ones for ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I see that your ‘house’ appears in the list of subscribers to the Surgical Aid Society. Do you think one or more letters could be spared to me? A little child was sent from the Society for protecting Waifs and Strays with a lame foot paralysed after measles- to be boarded at a cottage here. She is now in the Orthopaedic hospital, but she requires a boot and irons, and the expense is ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Lennard I must send your name on a separate piece of paper, as the book must go from Macmillan as I do not keep a stock of copies by me, and besides I think booksellers packing is safer than home, if I had a copy I was sure was new all through.

What a sad loss of all your precious books, that can never be repaired! We are looking forward to the 50th Consecration ... 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

My dear C C Here is a behind the times letter that concerns you. I have heard from Mr Thring, who says I can remove my books with proper notice, but as I don’t know how long proper notice is, I have written to ask, also he thinks there may be trouble about those of which A D I gives Royalty and on the older ones there is no agreement. I asked if ... continue reading

My dear C C It was for Monthly Packet articles that I extracted the payment, and the stock of the books that were my personal property were handed over to Macmillan. This offer from the family must be for the actual sales that had taken place since there was an account; but these agents did not try to explain it, so I can only ‘take the goods the gods provide me’ if they do for ... continue reading

My dear C C I am doing my best to write to Macmillan I think it is our only hope and rather a forlorn one- and explaining some of its history and scope hoping not to say too much or too little, nor to shew personal feeling

But I am sure it is a thing to be considered how to have a high class magazine for young persons, as I have been telling him and ... 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

My dear C C Thank you for Crispin I was glad of him for we are feeding Alethea with light literature, she having broken down, with nothing the matter but a course of overwork after the influenza- first the children’s measles, then going to Holmwood to lodgings with the children, no nursery maid, and the lady nurse not looking after her, or doing nursery maid’s work and then a good deal to do at ... continue reading

Dear Mrs Drew, I am almost certain that the Little Duke and the Lances of Lynwood are published in chapter form for school children’s reading and our schoolmistress told us she had seen Kenneth advertised as abridged for School reading - I know Arnold wrote to me for permission and I told him he might use it, if he could arrange with Parker of Oxford, who published it when I knew nothing of arrangements. Macmillan has ... continue reading