My dear Miss Smith Here is for Georgie who really has been a most brilliant and successful story that every body has liked. I wonder when you will have another such to send me. It is a long time since I have heard of you, but I hope you have been well. This has been a sad winter in many ways.

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Smith

I am afraid I do not quite remember the terms of the advertisement Can you send it to me again or its substance within the next few days. I ought not to have sent it or the address to her friends away but things do so accumulate that I am glad to make space! Here is a query which concerns you, and perhaps you will answer direct as ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

It is very pleasant to hear from you again. I think I shall read your paper to our mothers next Friday as part of it. We only began last winter- our clergyman’s wife to do the executive and I to read to them Alas! this spring we have had the terrible and unexpected loss of our good Vicar. He was only 42, and in full work, when struck ... continue reading