Dear Mr Bullock, I send Fletcher and Lady Falkland with your copy of Fletcher for which I am much obliged. I am afraid his life has turned out much too long as hers is too short. If it has to be cut down the bit about his noble birth could best be spared. His last Communion is wonderfully beautiful

Yours truly C M Yonge

I am returning the copy to Mr Churton

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Dear Mr Bullock, I think that with the book of Shropshire worthies I could manage Fletcher’s life. Lady Falkland is so well done in Miss Kavanagh’s Women of Christianity that I think I could write her from thence. I suppose you are entirely at sea as to disposing of the book and cannot tell at all what you could allow the writers Yours truly C M Yonge ... continue reading