Dear Madam,

As you kindly consent to look at the tale of child life in Italy that I mentioned to you, I now send you the three first chapters (it has twelve in all) of 'The Angel of Viareggio'. I hope the thin paper will not inconvenience you, but I shall not repeat the experiment & the rest of the MS. shall be sent to you on foolscap.

I enclose a post card & stamps & trusting ... continue reading

This is a charming beginning. I shall be delighted to have it next Christmas and if possible will put the chapters in together, so as to have all in one vol. With many thanks

C M Yonge

Signora Villari’s graceful story has been safely received, and shall be commenced in January 1880

C M Yonge

Dear Madam

Would you be so kind, in returning the proofs of ‘the angel of Viareggio’ as to address them direct to the printer

Messrs Clay & Taylor Bread Street Hill London EC

If they are addressed to the Editor, they remain at the office till a parcel is sent to me, and so we get them too late to profit by your corrections

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam

I hardly know how to answer you, for the having had the Angel of Viareggio is first a reason for not being able to take another story in the same line. I think however that Griffith and Farran- or Cassell or Routledge- or Aunt Judy’s Magazine would be glad of a child’s story with a little foreign colouring.

I believe Signora Linda Villari is English not American, but I do not know

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Miss Gatty,

The Signora Linda Villari wife to Professor Villari at Florence sent me this pretty little sketch of a real favourite bird. It is too youthful for the Packet, but I think you will like to open a connection with her, as she writes prettily and freshly. I enclose a card she sent with her address. She wrote a very pretty story once for the Packet called the Angel of Viareggio.

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