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To Ann Maria Carter Smith
Otterbourne, Winchester.
Jany 6th 1860

My dear Miss Smith, I have been a long time in answering you and thanking you for your story, but I wanted to finish reading it that I might tell you at once all I thought about it. And now I have 1st to enclose you a cheque for the amount due to you for ‘Who will come & do likewise,’ the praises of which I hear on every side; and next to congratulate you on ... continue reading

To Ann Maria Carter Smith
Otterbourne, Winchester.
Jany 10th1860

My dear Miss Smith,

It is a pleasure to have such a letter so answered, after feeling quite uncomfortable to have sent it off. Now I think I must copy off what a very able friend of mine says of the reading of Aggesden, apropos to the Saturday ‘I think that they (the SR) admire Aggesden & in fact it seems to me as little to design a moral as a plot.I should say there was ... continue reading

To John William Parker, Jr.
Otterbourne, Winchester.
Jany 13th 1860
My dear Sir, Some time ago you told me you could make arrangement for the publication of my books in America more satisfactory than the present with Messrs Appleton. I could not, neither can I now, avail myself of your kindness for myself, but I think it would be worth while to make arrangement for Miss Roberts’ book, Mlle Mori; I suppose there would still be time to send sheets to thei agent [sic] of an American ... continue reading
To Ann Maria Carter Smith
March 5th 1860

My dear Miss Smith,

I should be very sorry to let the tardiness of the Monthly Packet stand in the way of your Two Beauties so I hope you will offer them elsewhere, and find them successful. There is such a quiet prettiness about them that I am sure they ought to do. And I always have a sense of guiltiness is keeping a thing so long by me, so that I shall be quite relieved ... continue reading