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To Edward Augustus Freeman
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester
March 13th 1867
Sir, I am afraid you will think your kind mention of the Little Duke in your history of the Norman Conquest has brought on you an infliction - But I cannot resist the desire to send you my later story the Prince and the Page because in it I have tried as far as the scope of the story would allow, to do justice to the character of Simon de Montfort and Edward I. I am aware ... continue reading
Alexander Macmillan to Charlotte Mary Yonge
March 22 1867

Dear Miss Yonge . I am glad the Chaplet is going on. I do so want it in the Magazine, but the two stories now going . . . drag their slow length along. Poor Mrs Norton has been very ill, and had trouble in her family ever since we began. This month she writes from Rome that she cannot send anything. I fear her life has been & is very sad, and one has no heart ... continue reading

To Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
May 13th [1867]

My dear Miss Sewell My senses have returned for thinking and writing indeed for anything but walking. It seems to me that we might settle a great deal in a June council, Mary Coleridge is to be here for a week at the beginning of the month otherwise we are quite clear. I will send you Freeman tomorrow. It seems to me that his first seven pages, with perhaps his 4th chapter abridged would be very ... continue reading