Dear Miss Yonge I am waiting till the printer sends the whole of what you have sent, in type, before any more detailed remarks or suggestions. I am sure I shall feel more clearly what its effect is when I see it in a larger mass. I am very hopeful both from what I have seen of it and from what you say.

I sent you Cawnpore, because it struck me as so noble in tone, thought ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan,

Thank you for Mr Trevelyan’s Cawnpore, which will I am sure be terribly engrossing reading.

I waited to write both because I was trying to satisfy myself with the beginning of Moses, and because I wanted to see what the London Library would send me. And the latter is just at present - Nothing, so I should be very much obliged if you would lend me Stanley’s Sermons in Palestine and Thomson’s and ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge I quite hope to write to you about the Bethlehem this week. I have the duplicates, but have not got time to read them at a sitting as I meant.

Will you kindly send the Cawnpore notice to me. Mr Trevelyan has just been in. He was much gratified by your estimate of his book. For long your books and name have been familiar and dear in their family.

Yours ever faithfully A. Macmillan

My dear Mr Macmillan, Here is the notice of Cawnpore but I shall not be surprised if you do not think it the thing. The whole was too overpowering to say many words about and I have run into mere narrative more than I meant at first from the very force of the events. I am obliged to send it without any other eye over it, as my mother cannot bear to think of the horrors. ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan By no means did I mean the graceful little lamp on Golden Deeds - nor the Dove in the Sunday Book - nor the well in Cawnpore. I meant such a high priest and book as are outside Smith’s Biblical dictionary; or some of the whole pictures of men and women one often sees upon books, - spoiling the whole effect of the real illustration within. It was odd that I asked my ... continue reading