Sir,

Allow me to thank you for your notice of my recent volume of ‘Cameos of English history.’ But let me observe that Freitag derives the word sometimes spelt Lanzknechts as ‘Landsknechts’—free men of the country.

Miss Strickland, in her Life of Anne of Denmark, states that, though Oslo as Upslo afterwards had a Cathedral and was known as Christiana, both James’s letters, and the contemporary chroniclers describe the place as a small dreary village. I have ... continue reading

Madam, In the course of reading with much pleasure the last volume of the ‘Lives of the Queens of England’ I observe the following sentence ‘Whether the healing office formed a feature in the Common Prayer book of the Church of England service during the reigns of the Stuart Kings, we are not prepared to say, perhaps they were content with the Latin service.’ I am thus induced to believe that it may be interesting to ... continue reading

My dear Driver I rather doubted about sending you Cyrus, because, as you will see, he does not stand alone, but is a chapter of general history and therefore is not very minute, nor has he been written more than once, so that you must excuse numerous deficiencies and please to let me have him again. To my shame be it spoken I have not read Clarendon; we ought to have read him aloud ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I am much obliged for the loan of these two books. I have the Queens of England but not the Queens of Scotland, and the little book about Northamptonshire told me just what I wanted

With many thanks Yours truly C M Yonge