Dear Madam

I am exceedingly sorry for this, but I have nothing to do with those advertisements which are entirely the publisher’s affair I will send him your letter at once

yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Innes

I think you must have heard from Mrs Lennard by this time, as she mentioned, in a letter I had yesterday, having heard from you. I was out all day and could not write.

Miss Hugessen is ill and cannot do her paper this month but there are to be retrospective questions. I think the same notice will do. I will write the notices but I think I shall have to ask for an ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes

The copies to Canon Warburton were for presentation to the Central libraries of our Diocesan Society for Higher Religious Education.

I imagine that half a sheet will be quite enough, giving me 4 pages besides those for index and title which I always grudge but I cannot tell till I get the list of make up.

I see Chapman and Hall’s M S will not do. I much dislike stories in dialect and indeed I ... continue reading

My dear Florence I am very glad to hear of you again, and I hope the touch of frost will not be felt at Bournemouth; it has spared all our flowers as yet. I waited to write because Christabel was coming to make up our plans for the new volume. We will try to put in 'Purification' poem for February, but I am afraid poems do not get much payment. I wish ... continue reading