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

My dear Miss Walker Did people in 1800 think as much about war as we do? In fact I think they had a respite then, while the Peace of Amiens prevailed. I knew the old Dean of Winchester who had been at a levee of the First Consul in that year with Sir James Mackintosh. I made my niece look at him (the Dean) he was 90, by way of making a link

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