Sir,

I am sorry you had so much trouble about the Trial. I was only waiting to send it to you till I heard whether you thought it worth while to look at it so long before hand. I now send it by this post. There are six more chapters not yet in type of about the length of these, but I hope that the last of them will appear on the 1st of March or ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan, Will you kindly give me your advice on this letter? It is written to friend of mine at Philadelphia who seeing my 'Clever Woman of the Family' was about to appear in parts in 'the Living Age' wrote to enquire about it. This is Mr Littell’s answer.

I should tell you that Appleton gave me £25 for each of my larger books till the war, when he said he did not get profit enough ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan, I am afraid the Clever Woman cannot come out till March, as Hogg gives me no hope of finishing her before that time—so it would be hardly worth while to begin printing her till the beginning of the year.

I have sent all the rest of the Golden Deeds direct to the printers, they will end with Dr. Kane.

Yours sincerely C M Yonge