Dear Mr Craik I shall have a child’s book called ‘The Two Sides of the Shield' ready to come out about next Easter as it will be finished in the Monthly Packet about that time. I feel as if I ought to express my great regret that there has been such a story as the Author of Beltraffio in the Eng Illustrated Magazine. Surely it will only tend to make sceptically inclined people averse from devout faith ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik Thank you for your letter. Clay has had the first eight chapters of ‘the Two Sides of the Shield', which have come out, but Mr Walter Smith means Clowes for the future to print the Packet, so that he will not have the rest before hand. I suppose it will be about the size of Ps and Qs, but I have not quite wound it up yet. I don’t know whether it will afford ... continue reading