Dear Mr Macmillan By no means did I mean the graceful little lamp on Golden Deeds - nor the Dove in the Sunday Book - nor the well in Cawnpore. I meant such a high priest and book as are outside Smith’s Biblical dictionary; or some of the whole pictures of men and women one often sees upon books, - spoiling the whole effect of the real illustration within. It was odd that I asked my ... continue reading

Sir I think the books I most enjoyed in early childhood were Miss Edgeworth’s series of Early Lessons, Frank, Rosamond and Harry and Lucy.

Mrs Whately’s Fairfax family Anna Ross - Miss Strickland’s Rival Crusoes

Also very early Scott’s Poems Tales of A Grandfather The Talisman Ivanhoe Robinson Crusoe Lamb’s Mrs Leicesters School Tales from Shakespeare

This is all I can recollect of really standard books, which I read when very young

Yours truly C M Yonge