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Alexander Macmillan to Charlotte Mary Yonge
Jan 17 1865

My dear Miss Yonge I have given our printer orders to go on with the 'Clever Woman'. I hope you will receive proofs at once & have a rapid supply. It will make some such work as 'The Trial,' as you wish.

I have corresponded with a friend of yours about 'Events of the Month.' I think the idea admirable the want is a crying one. But it should be [illegible] and well carried out. I hardly ... continue reading

To Jemima Blackburn
Otterbourn
Febry 18th [1854]
My dear Mrs Blackburn This is to acknowledge the Thumbery and thank you. I will not say anything about him because I have time neither to read nor to think about him this morning, but I am very glad you hold to the spider, it seems to me immoral to alter the end of a recognised story. What do you think of burying him under an Eyebright, and rose-cutting bees might make his shroud, if ... continue reading
To an Unknown Woman
Elderfield Otterbourne Winchester
Novr 10 [1894?]

Dear Madam I send two of the books you wish for. The Cross Roads is I find being read to a class of G F S girls, but will be finished by the time you have done with these two. John Brent is by S Baring Gould, one of the penny SPCK series. I know I have it and have read it aloud, but I cannot lay my hand on it this moment.

I have only one ... continue reading