My dear Miss Warren,

Many thanks for your three letters and their enclosures. I am very glad the Society has taken it up, for not only will it now be cheaper and better got up, but it is a relief from responsibility - Miss Goodrich is personally known to Mr Evans, and has written a good many little books and tracts for the SPCK -'The cross bearer' - Faith Ashwin, the Chamois Hunters &c- Fanny Wilbraham ... continue reading

My dear Miss Roberts

I am quite ashamed to think how long it is since we have had any communication with you and now I am writing not quite on my own account, but to mention a plan in which I think you would be able and willing to assist. There is an idea of setting on foot a series of county histories and descriptions fit for popular use and such as would teach an intelligent ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan, Otterbourn was turned upside down yesterday by a grand wedding, so that I could accomplish nothing but sending off the book without writing.

I am much obliged by your proposal about the Clever Woman, and shall be well satisfied with the terms you propose, - and very glad not to have the stereotyping taken out of the £200. It strikes me that there ought to be another sheet in the first volume; as there ... continue reading

My dear Louisa, I am so much obliged to you for that letter, I think the giving a set of necessary tables to be learnt by heart is an excellent idea which I had not thought of. I had come to your conclusion about questions. I had been always used to them with school children, but Helen and Arthur have minds and memories awake enough not to want to be badgered with questions. The plan I ... continue reading

My dear Mr Freeman,

I am going to take two or three days more that I may finish up Philip IV and his three disagreeable sons, who will complete the 2nd chapter - the 3d is to be the Hundred Years War, the 4th the Italian wars, the 5th must go from Louis XIII to the end of Louis XV, and ought to be called the Absolutism of the King. I expect you will find ... continue reading

My dear Christabel

Fernando is here and we have read his first five chapters with much enjoyment the only observations I have to make is that the little girls would have been Leonor and Catalina, and that surely Portugal was held by the Moors till Henry of Burgundy conquered it. I know that Arabia has not affected the language, but I think they possessed the country I like all this about the 5 sons ... continue reading

My dear Christabel

It is a beautiful story If May & I could be girls again how we should rave about those princes. I hope some one else is capable. One or two things- Why were appletrees rare? I thought they were genuine old English I’m sure crabs are! Alvarez is a patronymic he should be Alvare, and the Portuguese would have called Sir Walter Don Guiltierre

I think the ... continue reading

Miss Yonge is glad to be able to inform Mr Hoskins that the 1st volume of the Beginnings of Church history is nearly printed and will soon be out. A large number of orders for it is the only way of cheapening it. Miss Yonge fears the Societies would not accept the book without omissions to which she could not consent.

Dear Madam

I wish I could promise a ready admittance to My English Servant into the Monthly Packet, but I am afraid that sending it to me would only involve an almost endless waiting. Some stories I have had by me for two years, and I think yours deserves a better fate, I wish the SPCK would take it, I can’t understand their principles, for I am sure there are two or three stories in ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I am afraid your paper is too outspoken for the atmosphere of the Monthly Packet - which has to be guarded for young readers.

I should think there was every chance of the SPCK being glad to take your papers.

I do not know Cornwall at all, but is it not too strong to say that Adultery as such is not viewed as a sin - even by very neglected people

The other sin is - ... continue reading

Dear Madam The best modern prints in point of art are Hoffman’s series, uncoloured, only the Gospels. I have seen a beautiful edition given by the Duchess of Albany to Bishop Harold Browne’s grandchildren. I think they could be had from Williams and Norgate. The only fault is a certain weakness in the Divine face. There is a fairly good series of ‘Sunday Picture books’ - each little book /6 -drawn by André edited by Rev ... continue reading

My dear C C Do you want Campbell’s Highland tales? I dont think there is anything bearing on Arthur in them he was quite Cymric not Gaelic. I sent the two Mags for young yesterday. Shall I write notices of SPCK’s books? They are not a good lot thus far as I have read, and there are two by Miss E Finnimore, the Postwoman and Uncle Isaac’s will that I am ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I have been looking for Innes’s accounts, (I send the agreement drawn up with him and Tanner in /93.) but there is no mention of the Castle builders in it nor in any of the subsequent accounts, which go to /96. I cannot find a later one, though I should have thought there would have been one in /97.

I think the book must have been out of print when he took the ... continue reading

My dear C C Thank you for Crispin I was glad of him for we are feeding Alethea with light literature, she having broken down, with nothing the matter but a course of overwork after the influenza- first the children’s measles, then going to Holmwood to lodgings with the children, no nursery maid, and the lady nurse not looking after her, or doing nursery maid’s work and then a good deal to do at ... continue reading

My dear C C I hope the change will be a success. I did not know there had to be so long an interval, I do not remember it here, but as it was between old friends there might have been some arrangement. Wells Gardiner will not reprint ‘Forget me not’. I wonder whether I ought to try SPCK, they took Mary Bramston’s FL story last year - I don’t think Macmillan ... continue reading

My dear C C So you are to have a new Bishop, I am glad Lord Salisbury is there to have the choosing of him. Our elections have gone off quietly, and our neighbour of Cranbury is at the head of the poll at Southampton. Winchester is not settled yet, but for the county no one opposes old Mr Beach, who I believe is the father of the House The Mallocks are ... continue reading

My dear C C By all means-

My people sail on the 26th I think Mrs Woollcombe stays till Novr 1 and Lottie does not come till the end of the month Mary Morshead comes to do her African lectures on Mondays She has just given her first and you will come in for the two last-

I had a very interesting East London parson to entertain on Sunday week, a Huguenot who had ... continue reading

My dear Miss Warren

That S P C K is a very queerly governed thing - more like Venice than anything else I think

But I should be very glad to be at work with you again! and to have your pretty Saints day stories -

The only doubt I have is how soon space will be manageable, as I do not see to the end of Daniel at this moment, as all the translation is not ... continue reading