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March 22 1867
Dear Miss Yonge . I am glad the Chaplet is going on. I do so want it in the Magazine, but the two stories now going . . . drag their slow length along. Poor Mrs Norton has been very ill, and had trouble in her family ever since we began. This month she writes from Rome that she cannot send anything. I fear her life has been & is very sad, and one has no heart ... continue reading
Sept 6 1866
Dear Miss Yonge, Sept 6 1866
We shall look forward to the Chaplet of Pearls beginning as soon as either “Old Sir Douglas” or “The Silcotes” cease. It will be, I venture to think, one of your most popular books, and ought not to be the worse for a little mellowing.
I am going down to Scotland with my wife tomorrow morning, and will be away for a fortnight. After that I hope to be at home ... continue reading