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

My dear Miss Yonge I will confess to being about as much in doubt of what can be, or ought to be done with the Americans as it is possible for a man to be. I have got for Mr Kingsley £50 to £75, but since the war we have not got a penny for anything.

If the Living Age will give you anything for advanced sheets I certainly would be inclined to take it. Appletons ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan I can quite enter into what you say of that first chapter’s meagreness. There were things I wanted to keep in reserve, and I do not think one’s mind gets so worked up to the point /at first as after having gone through all the preliminaries and preparation. I wanted to keep Bethlehem by daylight /on the Gleaning of Right for the Anointing of David, and therefore made less of the scenery ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge, It is most kind of you to take my crude criticism in so good part. I did think of the parts, and your possible motive in dwelling on the opening chapter in the slight way you have done. Still with an eye to what is coming I cannot but think that the opening should be fuller, more sonorous and in a higher key. But I have asked Mr Clay to let ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge The colonial conscience exists as you see in relation to copyright. If you will kindly sign the enclosed receipt we will be able to recover for you munificent sum of 11/8d. for the wrong done you by the sale of Yankee reprints in British territory.

I am not going to America after all, & will, I trust have the pleasure of seeing you at my house when you come to London. Will you kindly ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan, Thanks, here are the receipts. I think I once got 5/ in like manner before from the Cape. I am not able yet to speak with any certainty of our plans. We have just offered ourselves to my uncle for the 8th of September, and there is such a vista of relations to stay with when once we get into Devonshire, that I do not think we shall come to London till the ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan, Many thanks, it is very agreeable to get anything out of America. I have a story of the time of Henry V and James I of Scotland - about half out in the Monthly Packet, and all written. I was thinking of proposing it to you for Christmas when it will be finished in the Monthly Packet. Might not some arrangement be made about it with Scribner. I could either send them the ... continue reading

Gentlemen

I am much obliged for the draft for £10 received this morning as well as the copies of the Story of the Christians and Moors, which I am very glad to have in this cheap form. I am much obliged for your liberality in the matter, and

remain &c C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

I hope my sending the corrections on this pirated American copy of the ‘Christians and Moors’ is not inconvenient; they sent me a dozen, and I preferred sacrificing one to doing so from /with my own last copy

The lists at the end must not however be used to print from as the Americans have massed them together with a fine disregard of chronology

I have I hope corrected the careless blunders, It is ... continue reading

Messrs Harper

I am much obliged for the £10 for Love and Life received on the 14th yesterday. I am also much obliged to you for sending me your ‘paper for young people.’ I ventured to extract a short poem on the Plumes of Crecy for a Reading Book for schools making however a few alterations to bring it more into accordance with history than romance

Yours faithfully C.M. Yonge

Messrs Harper

Gentlemen

I am much obliged for your remittance of £5 for Stray Pearls

Yours truly C M Yonge

Sir

I should be very glad of the establishment of the copy right system with America but I should like to have more information before joining the Company of Authors.

Yours truly C M Yonge

Gentlemen

I am much obliged for £10 for the publication of the Modern Telemachus I am sending the receipt to Mr Asgood

I remain &c C M Yonge

Messrs Harper