My dear Miss Curteis Your queries shall go in next time but is your Eagle & Goose story ready. If it is I should be thank [sic] to have it next week, as I am going from home, and I meant to get the number made complete before I go. I direct this to Leasams as Exmouth seems too large to find a stranger without further address.

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My dear Christabel If it is copyright, I think they ought to give you at least £10, you did not sell your copyright to the Eagle and it may sometimes make a difference in case of one’s wanting to collect short stories together into a volume

I do not know if this is the right sum, but it seems to me about fair

yours affectionately and much hurried C M Yonge

I shall be here till the 30th so ... continue reading

My dear Christabel Goslings do multiply overmuch, but I cannot refuse to make a two headed one, like Double daisy out of these two damsels of Miss Keary’s about whom I send her letter. Will you send them the Gosling list, and standing orders I am sending them the rules. Who asks questions next – none have come to me to choose from for December- and it is January that is the holiday.

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