My dear Miss Smith

Thank you, I like the beginning very much, and I think it much to the purpose, as you always are. I hope it is not to turn out very melancholy, though I have my fears. The Church going is very pretty and calm. But I cannot help thinking that though the favoured inmates of the pew do feel the shelter, and the associations, the poor had much less chance ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

Thank you for the end of your story which I like very much. Here and there you may have been a little discursive, and possibly abridgement may find out some bits. About the incongruity of wreaths with the feelings of the last generation I quite agree with you. We /elder ones felt it so with my dear old uncle who we knew held it as a frivolity, and ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I do not like to lay more revising on your eyes, but since you propose it, I think it would be safer. Armigel’s surname is a very undetermined matter, though I think you mean it to be Griffiths, by which I think Gladys is rather victimized. I think it will be certainly better to omit the engagement which does spoil the generosity of the act, and has not been prepared ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I am sorry to say your story, even with a little abridging, comes to 63 pp, and as that is nearly a quarter of the Christmas no. I had to give it up with another which I liked almost as well, but was 53 pp, so I am afraid I must keep it waiting for the end of Paul and Virginia and put it into the regular M P. I like your ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I hope to begin upon your story in April but could you be so kind as just so to touch the beginning as to take out the allusions to Manners makyth man, or people will trace that it was meant for the Christmas number. Could you let me have it again about the 1st of March.

And one thing, could not the name be reversed, for I think the young people really ... continue reading