Dear Sir I have been so much interested by the book you have kindly sent me, in common with rest of the Author’s Society and, having had a little correspondence with you many years ago, when you were editing the English Plutarch, I venture to write, thinking you may care to hear some experiences of a long life of writing, not from necessity but because I had something to say.

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My dear Mr Tyrwhitt,

There is a chapter on Basilica in the printer’s hands just now. I ought to have sent it up for October and I don’t know how I missed laying my hands on it when I was packing up the MS. I ought to have mentioned it when you wrote to me, and now I am terribly afraid I have given you ‘double double toil and trouble’. When the proofs come ... continue reading

My dear Mr Tyrwhitt

Those Kindergarten books are published by a Froebel society The one I read last was ‘Kindergarten’ Lectures by ladies of the Froebel society, Miss Shirreff, Miss Anna Buckland &c. Some of the said lectures were sensible There is one on stories including fairy and that though inconsistent with the rest is very good. I think so far as the Kindergarten is an Infant school with a fine name, to which ... continue reading

Dear Mr Tyrwhitt

The copy right is yours. It always stays with authors in the Packet, so neither Mr Smith nor I can have any objection to Natural Beauty appearing in America

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Lizzie-

. . . It is of no use to debate about W. E. G. You know even dear M. A. and I had to avoid the subject, so I am not likely to be more convinced now of anything but that he deceives himself most of all, and takes love of power and popularity and hatred of Conservatives for love of right.

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