My dear Mrs Mercier, Your recollections of Mr Peabody are very touching, and I hope they will appear in February - January is pretty well done for! I am sorry for the blunder about Christabel, it came of lending the book and trusting to memory

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Mrs Mercier, I enclose a cheque for the remainder of Campanella and send at the same time a proof of Mr Peabody, hoping you will not sacrifice the modest request which seems to me too good to be lost.

Thank you for Miss Tucker’s address I hope she has heard from Mr Warne by this time

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Lady Betty is an admirable story