Dear Mr Innes

Next year’s programme is my own Two Penniless Princesses - historical longish chapters. Miss Agnes Giberne has promised a story - and the Storm in a Teacup has to go on another half year I tried doubling the chapters, but there was not room. I think it is a mistake to sacrifice the story to the volume, as often in those I read, I see the development has been injured to get ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes

Many thanks for the account and the cheques for which I enclose receipts.

I will keep the Molyneuxes till you return, as they give much pleasure here. I think it should be observed to the author that there is an inconsistency in making the estate come through the mother and then placing a Molyneux ancestry there.

Also I think the Baptism of Eggs is an expression not desirable in a child’s book.

When you return there ... continue reading