My dear Miss Yonge, If I am not mistaken, you have issued lately several books. Do you not think that there is one that would be suitable for republication in our Series? If so, we should be glad to receive a copy, in order to judge how best to arrange our edition.

I sincerely wish that you may enjoy your usual good health and, hoping to receive your kind reply at your earliest convenience, I beg [you] ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Here is the Reputed Changeling. It really is a much better story than Beechcroft at Rockstone which was chiefly written to run on with the Monthly Packet and satisfy people insatiable of continuations, so that as a young people’s tale it suffers from being treated as a novel.

Has it gone to Tauchnitz?

What a curious book Reuben Sachs is! Is Amy Levy a genuine Jew- ?

She seems to have stripped off all the illusions, ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Thanks for the last set of my books, and for the Kingsley’s whereof we have been going through a course.

If I might have the payment for the first edition of Beechcroft at Rockstone I should be glad.

I suppose the last volume of Cameos is waiting for its index, but I hope it will be out before the season is over.

The Reputed Changeling is a much better thing I hope than the Rockstone ... continue reading