Dear Madam

I hardly know how to answer you, for the having had the Angel of Viareggio is first a reason for not being able to take another story in the same line. I think however that Griffith and Farran- or Cassell or Routledge- or Aunt Judy’s Magazine would be glad of a child’s story with a little foreign colouring.

I believe Signora Linda Villari is English not American, but I do not know

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

I have been asked so urgently that I hardly know how to refuse, by a person who knows a good deal of the popular mind at Liverpool (being on the Committee of those Recreation classes, and doing much besides) to write a popular account of the fifty years of the reign, to be dispersed in preparation for the Jubilee Year. She says it ought to cost only sixpence, to be like a ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes Thank you much for what was useless trouble. I thought Stanford was sure to have had such maps reasonably cheap for travellers. There is a good little geological map of England in Letts’s atlas, but the book is very badly bound, and that one map in my copy has some how been lost.

I think there are small editions of Keith Johnstone- but his publisher is Blackwood, I suppose he has an office ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes I shall be glad to have fresh editions of Beginnings of Christian History and of the Pigeon Pie.

My engineering nephew has routed up an atlas of Keith Johnstone of manageable size. If that does not prove sufficient I shall try Cassell

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Arthur Humbert was the name of the Dolphin. I did not know I had put it ambiguously. There was a Dauphin in Auvergne and in Montpensier, till the last turned into a Duke. They did bear dolphins, but I don’t think anyone knows whether the arms came from the dolphin or the dolphin from the title. I will either put in the name Humbert or join Count-dauphin with a hyphen ... continue reading

My dear Arthur Do you think that Cassell would like for one of his Magazines a sort of abridgement of Madame Cornélis de Witt’s diary of the Franco German siege of Paris, called Six mois de la Guerre It is a little book and my account of it would only take 8 or 10 pp of the Monthly Packet size It is nearly finished and will be ready to send away in a ... continue reading