Dear Miss Yonge

Mr Sutcliffe is a very old friend of ours. I must write him on the subject of plain hand. He[,] the head of an Educational department[,] ought to know better.

I have sent you four copies of Golden Deeds through Nutt & Wells. I suppose you can get them thence.

My sister threatens you with a letter. But we wanted to see the first chapter in type first. The printer is doing this.

Yours ever truly A. ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan, In the first place I have a beautiful photograph to thank you for, which arrived here viâ Nutt and Wells this morning, and the subject of which much excites our speculations, and adds pleasant mystery to our admiration.

Next I return the first sheet of Bethlehem, the appearance of which I like much. I think there should be a text and a verse to each chapter. Do you wish to have each chapter ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan,

Thank you for Mr Trevelyan’s Cawnpore, which will I am sure be terribly engrossing reading.

I waited to write both because I was trying to satisfy myself with the beginning of Moses, and because I wanted to see what the London Library would send me. And the latter is just at present - Nothing, so I should be very much obliged if you would lend me Stanley’s Sermons in Palestine and Thomson’s and ... continue reading