My dear Miss Smith Articles addressed to the Ed of M P go to Miss Coleridge. She has been from home and things go to arrears, which she has hardly made up yet, but I will tell her to see about your paper.

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Madam I shall be very happy to avail myself of your pretty and pathetic tale of Lucy and Christian Wainwright for the Monthly Packet as soon as I can find space for its appearance, but I fear this may not be immediately as I should be sorry to break up the story into several numbers as the effect would be injured.

My rate of payment is 1/6 per printed page, and on putting this into type I ... continue reading

Madam, I delayed to thank you for your M S, till I had had time to read it. It is a very well told story, and I shall have great pleasure in inserting it in an early number of the ensuing volume, either in July or August. The only criticism I should make, is that the boys are rather too old, even at that date, for a schoolroom tea, especially Johnnie, if he had ... continue reading

Dear Madam, I cannot deny myself the pleasure of writing to tell you how much your Thorns and Roses have already elicited of admiration. One of my best contributors (the School Sketches) has written this morning ‘you must let me say how much charmed I & all here are with the beautiful tale, Thorns &c Is it a secret absolutely whose authorship it is, or is it permissible to ask whether ... continue reading

My dear Madam I enclose a draft for 8.12. 6. with many thanks both to you and your sister. I was not aware of her marriage, so that congratulations would now lag sadly behind. My School Sketches friend Miss Emily Taylor, the author of that pretty little book ‘the Boy and the Birds’ is the person so anxious to know your name; she is - as perhaps you know - actively engaged in ... continue reading

My dear Madam When I wrote my first letter, I must have been under some hallucination that 52 shillings was £2 2. instead of £2.12. but I am glad the mistake was there instead of in the cheque. Your pretty Household Record came safely this morning, and I have read nearly to the end with much pleasure. I think I like it better than Wishop though not quite so well as the [[otherbook:253]Thorns and ... continue reading

My dear Madam Many thanks for Wishop, which looks much improved by the omissions.

The M P was Sir William Heathcote MP for Oxford, perhaps you will even better like to hear that Mr Keble could not help listening to the Thorns and Roses with great interest in the middle of his work. I have put out the beginning of Wishop for March, but I cannot make sure of it, as there is a short story ... continue reading

Dear Miss Smith I am going to ask you in my private capacity to do me a kindness. My brother is just setting out on an expedition to Norway, and we are ignorant whether we can write to him there in the ordinary manner for the Continent. I mean whether poste restante is the usual form, or if there is any other mode more congenial to the north, and also whether we should spell Drontheim ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith I should have been glad to accept your ‘Manchester Visit’, but it has been forestalled as you will see on the first of August.

I have put out your princesses for October but I do not feel sure how the space will be

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Smith Thank you for all your replies, I had been waiting to answer you till I had read aloud to the end, for you must know I began it the day it came when a girl was here whose London experiences are very West End, and as she went away in the midst, much interested, I only glanced on to the end, and kept the rest till she came again. She was decided ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith It is very odd to send the money in two orders, but when I sent on Saturday the Post Office or I contrived to make a blunder, and the Order arrived for less than your due, so I am afraid you must have the trouble of signing both of these. £1.19 is for the Royal Household, with many thanks, and I have ventured to add a pound for your district if ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith, I meant to have written to you on Saturday, but was hindered. On the whole I think I should say that your case was more disappointing and vexatious than anything else, and that Mr Mozley though his conduct is decidedly provoking did not exactly deserve such strong censure.

You see his view of the case is that if a book do not answer it is no particular pleasure to anyone, ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith, I like it very much, and am exceedingly ready for some more, much wishing to know Johnny’s fate. Mr and Mrs Arnold are both admirable of their kind, and so is Mary. I am sure her like is often found, as I am afraid Frank’s is too - everybody can remember some dreadful boy before the age of chivalry. We delight too in Sir Hector and his daughter. I ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith The end of Aggesden does not at all disappoint me, I think Frank's gradual self conquest beautifully done, and John not at all less charming than at first. Mary is a very good lesson altogether, and very nicely done. And now for the subject of those two troublesome verbs to lie and to lay. I observe you say 'he lay down his head' and 'I must lay down all ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith I hope and trust the tale is safe, I sent it off with the letter on Saturday, in a brown paper cover and a shilling stamp which our post office told me was the sufficient sum. If it be not come, we must write to the General Post Office but I hope to hear it is all right, as I know the book post will sometimes detain a heavy parcel for a ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith, I enclose the Greenwich division of Frances. You see necessity drove me into splitting her into smaller fractions than I like, but I could not help it, and I can give you a most notable account of her popularity, everyone is delighted with her, and most especially those who are used to work of her description, which is the very best testimony to her excellent portrait painting. I hope you ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith Here is £8..4 for your kind help in the course of the last half year. I think Frances has been entirely successful. The sole criticism I have heard is that she might have found plenty of misery at the West End - but then as her father was a landowner in the East, I think she had every call thither.

Thank you for your promise of a story for that far ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith Many thanks for your pretty old style story, which has a great sweetness about it, and I shall be very glad to get in when I can. One thing - does it not make a confusion that Isabella calls Mrs Margaret Aunt, and one other - would a lady whose daughter died under 50 speak of her as an old woman? It is not like the lady of 100 ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith, I am sorry this came just too late to send to you at home as you wished. It was too late to write and hurry the people at Derby to print it, so I could only wait for the chance of its coming in time. The last thing I heard about it was from the writer of the Cheshire Pilgrims Frances Dysart is delightful. I am glad you ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith I was on a visit in Devonshire when your note reached me, or I would sooner have written to thank you for telling me of the commencement of the printing of Aggesden Vicarage. I suppose Mr Parker intends to have it out in the ‘publishing season’ at Christmas, and I hope it will progress.

Frances Dysart has given unmitigated satisfaction except by coming to an end, everyone likes and admires her, ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith I should say if you made it, his squire, it would do. One says - Oh his squire is Sir Charles or Lord H - meaning that such a relation exists between landowner and parson - though on the other hand the gentleman may not be exactly an Esquire. It is rather a cockney printer’s objection, but there is some sense in it. Sir Hector belongs to the Squirearchy, ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith Parker has sent me the two pretty volumes of Aggesden, and very nice they look in print. I hope they will succeed for it is a very pretty story, and I think all it wants is more attention on your part to composition as a study. I do think, if you will allow me to say so, that to make your pretty narratives take thoroughly you should go carefully through ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith, If I had not been very busy yesterday I should then have written to welcome your offer of sending me your story to read. We should like to have it very much, but as I shall be from home next week, would you be so kind as not to send it till Christmas Eve? Then I shall hope to begin it on the Monday. I daresay its destination ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith, I have been a long time in answering you and thanking you for your story, but I wanted to finish reading it that I might tell you at once all I thought about it. And now I have 1st to enclose you a cheque for the amount due to you for ‘Who will come & do likewise,’ the praises of which I hear on every side; and next to congratulate you on ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

It is a pleasure to have such a letter so answered, after feeling quite uncomfortable to have sent it off. Now I think I must copy off what a very able friend of mine says of the reading of Aggesden, apropos to the Saturday ‘I think that they (the SR) admire Aggesden & in fact it seems to me as little to design a moral as a plot.I should say there was ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

It is as pretty and as touching as possible, and we felt it very much, both the waiting, and the old dog coming home to us, in a very way you cannot know. But the very feelings it excited (though we are strangers to all who sailed in that expedition) made us doubt whether the facts be not too recent for treatment in anything like fiction. The numbers were too few for ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

I should be very sorry to let the tardiness of the Monthly Packet stand in the way of your Two Beauties so I hope you will offer them elsewhere, and find them successful. There is such a quiet prettiness about them that I am sure they ought to do. And I always have a sense of guiltiness is keeping a thing so long by me, so that I shall be quite relieved ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

I am delighted to hear that the rest of the Websters is en route. I find that I never get a book parcel given out on a Monday morning, so I am not at all uneasy at not having received it at the same time as the letter, though I feel rather baulked of my afternoon’s pleasure. My mother and I have most thoroughly enjoyed these first seven chapters, which she thinks ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

Thanks for the continuation, some of which we like very much, but I have a good deal to say about it, which is all the easier to do, as you tell me you were thinking of making some alterations in the re writing. First - to begin with what struck us in its order. Grandpapa’s account of his own youth is a little dull and I do not think his history of ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

I have been so much taken up that I could not answer your letter sooner, and thank you for the way you have taken it. I am amused at the ordeal you are undergoing. I never met with anything like it, except once, when going with a cousin to luncheon with a connection of hers, she was addressed with ‘Anne, why could you have lent us Abbeychurch. Those games! And that mother!’ ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I am glad I know you are at home that I may send you not lost but found. I have, as you desired me, taken great liberties with the correction. I think that what I have chiefly to observe is that you have here and there made it obscure by elliptical writing, and that you must beware of now which comes very often over, and I used, by my home critic, to ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

Many thanks for your scrupulous honesty. The Websters are safe come, and I will write about them as soon as I can, but perhaps there may be a little delay - as I am going out for the whole day today, and we have a friend staying with us, so I may not have time to read or write this week.

I am very glad to see them however - and look forward ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I did not write about the last part of the Websters as you kindly said you would take silence for an acknowledgement, until I had finished them, as I did last night, having been hindered by many interruptions.

We have been much interested in them, and think great part very good [sic] - Grace and Harold, and the early part of George and Grace especially, but somehow the parts do not perfectly ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

Thank you, I think this is very satisfactory, and that all the part about old Mr Webster is quite in your best style - and the contrast between the brothers excellent. Mr Webster certainly has his deserts, and one is comforted by his tardy appreciation of George. I am glad Harry’s Confirmation did go off, though by the by, you have not made the corresponding alteration in the account of his death[.] ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith, Many thanks for your kind answer, I think these ladies’ biographies will be very nice work to do together, and I believe that to look into real life minutely is the best school for one’s own mind or for fiction. If I write nothing but fiction for some time, I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets - then history is ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

Many thanks for the arrival of this morning and for your kind undertaking of the biographies. You will find a good deal more of Mrs Grant’s childhood in her Life of an American Lady, which may be got from Hookham’s library if from no where else. I wish I had the book or I would gladly lend it to you - it is a very interesting and curious picture, but in such ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I did not write yesterday because the parcel was not come, but it is here all safe this morning though I can only testify to the beautiful clear MS as yet. It was rather over weight, which perhaps was the reason of the delay. I think it is possible this may account for the lamented loss of the Wynnes, as the post will not convey things beyond a certain amount overweight. I ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

Thanks many - not that I meant to be paid when I mentioned it only to avoid the loss of MSS - I shall be very glad to have them as they are ready, and if you write with them, I will not answer without occasion. I believe an odd number of stamps is always wrong - but 4 will carry almost anything one wants to send. You are right that one ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

I send the papers about Sandwell, and a back number of the M P, which please return. I have scarcely heard anything about the institution since I received this account from Miss Goodrich so my knowledge of it is two years old

yours sincerely

C M Yonge

My dear Miss Smith I am sure it is due that you should have the reading of this letter and the administration of the £10 as you must know much better how to reach the destitute families than I do, and the donor will I am sure be well pleased to hear it is in the hands of Frances Dysart’s author. If you will be so kind as to undertake it, I will write to her ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

I think your answer is a very wise one, and quite what I can understand. I am sure with all the poor I have known unusual help unless on some very pressing occasion would be anything but really beneficial, but the three old couples might be most happily provided, and I hope Mrs Elphinstone may choose that way of spending the sum. I will put what you say before her, thank you ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I have all but finished Mrs Grant and most interesting she is. Many many thanks for her. I am not sure whether she is not a little too long, to be in thorough proportion with the others, and if I find it so, perhaps I may have to take out a few of the letters that relate less directly to her personal history, but certainly not the American ones. What an old ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

I send you an order for the chapters of the Thorne that have appeared- also another to correct. I think people like it much - your neighbour Miss Wilford was talking about it yesterday she is staying with her aunt at St Cross, and I am always much tempted to betray you

yours sincerely

C M Yonge

The Order is payable to Ann Smith - more names always cause blunders

My dear Miss Smith

I have sent my brother to torment the Winchester postmaster, so I hope it will all come right. I sent another at the same time to Old Charlton to Mrs Carr, which perhaps made this confusion. Perhaps I should have told you that I made out the order in the name only of Ann Smith. How happy you must be with your sailor - it seems like all the holidays of many ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I found your MS here yesterday on my return from a two months expedition into Yorkshire and Devonshire. I think it is a pretty bright description, and the history of the contending organs is very entertaining, the only pity is that it is too late for December. I hope you have had a chapter of the Thorne. I find it is much liked and I am glad to see you in the ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

You must have begun to wonder if the Indian £10 was coming I am sure I did, but here it is at last, in good time I hope. It seems that Mrs Elphinstone has been very ill, and that has prevented her from sending it sooner. I will write to her to acknowledge it as soon as I have heard from you. I am glad to see your three Ks in the ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I have not the letter, at least I do not believe I have but I am almost certain that it was to be the 4 couples at 2lb; and I think you may safely so apply it. I will wait a week to write to Mrs Elphinstone in case you should be able to tell me anything specially about any of the people.

I do not know whether I forgot to finish my ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

I enclose your cheque. I am very sorry to have kept you waiting so long, but Mr Mozley has not paid me yet, and as I sent him an appeal the other day to see if I could not get our pay raised, I was waiting for his answer though even if it were to raise our terms it would hardly be for this year that is past. I feel very cross ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

Thank you much for sending me this letter, I will certainly write to Mrs Elphinstone about it - the last time I heard from her she had been excited by the account of the Needlewomen to get up a subscription on their behalf- with a vision of opening a branch in London. I referred this to Miss Batty and Miss Barlee. I am so glad the application of her money turned out ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I enclose a cheque for the amount of the Banks of the Thorne that has gone in this time, and I think has been very much liked.

I have had an offer of Mrs Sherwood’s Life from a person who can get at something about her privately so I thought you would not mind my accepting it, as a little beyond a published memoir is such a gain.

You see the Packet is flourishing ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

Your letter has been following me all over the country and has just reached me here. I am ashamed of the blunder that must have been made somehow, probably by myself, but here I am in Yorkshire out of the way of making out how the error could have happened.

I was terribly hurried while we were preparing to leave home, and did not myself correct the paper of the M P contributions, ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

I think this story is one of the most complete you have yet done. Mr Franklyn’s self debates are excellent, and dear little Mary beautiful, the wicked part very touching By the by you should do something with the /Michaels mother. She must be mentioned somehow- on his return, or else have died. I think if she had, she would be a great riddance out of Victoria’s way, and besides ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

Here is a note for Mr Bourne that I hope may do good service. I am not inclined to augur ill from the selling off of Aggesden, for of course tales do cease to sell after a time, and Parker certainly has published three or four one volume ones since his son’s death, such as Baby Bianca, Martha Brown, or the Queen’s Maries.

I am glad you will kill Mrs Forrest, only recollect ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I am sorry my counsels only led to disappointment but I daresay it is wise in poor old Mr Parker to undertake as little as possible. I should think you were in good hands with Bell & Daldy. I know Mrs Gatty thinks them very liberal. In one case I knew where a lady wanted to publish a story rather longer than yours, they offered to take it if she would guarantee ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

At last I have made out that last year’s blunder was that one short chapter of 8 pages was entirely missed over in the counting. This half year there are 76 pp, for which the amount is naturally £9. 10- the pound added from last time makes it £10.. 10- and the slight margin Mr Mozley now allows for our good contributors enables me to make it £12.. 10- for which I ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

Many thanks for the first sight of my dear friends the Franklyns how attractive Bell’s pretty paper makes them. I will take care they go safely tomorrow on their long voyage, but I am afraid it is quite too late for a notice of them in the forthcoming Packet I take shame to myself for not have remembered that Mutterchen was neuter in the time of the M S and now ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

I have at length obtained the account for the Biographies and am glad to be able to send you the enclosed as your share of the proceeds. Your account of the Procession was in time, and is going in this month with an Illumination story of the last time London was in a blaze.

After this week please to add Elderfield before Otterbourn [sic] in our address. It is a cottage in the ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith,

I am half afraid of plunging into a tour because I have got so many on hand, that Eastern journal is indeed printed to the end, but I cannot get it in, and the Journal in Holland lingers on, and I have some Italian letters that I grieve not to have got in, so on the whole I think I had better decline yours, though if I had not been so ‘furred ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

In great haste, I enclose £10 for this half year’s Thorne

yours sincerely

C M Yonge

My dear Miss Smith

Here are two chapters to make up for the having missed one out last time. I was obliged to do so, for I had the wrong proof with me when I was from home, and had to wait till I could get at the proof of the first.

I believe I told you of our change of house. Our direction now is Elderfield, Otterbourn, [sic] Winchester

yours sincerely

C M Yonge

My dear Miss Smith

I have kept your French journal a terrible time, and I am sorry to say I cannot get it in after all. It is rather too much trodden ground, and even you cannot make it new enough. I think you will soon get a huge piece of the Banks of the Thorne to finish them with the year if possible, and then we begin on our new principles. I hope the enclosed ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I have certainly made a mess! The fact was this, that two or three years ago, I made a great appeal to get more pay than the 2/6, and the result was a sum sufficient to give at the rate of about /6 per page more to some one article in the number, but not to all. I have no doubt that I then told you I could give you 3/ per ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith, I have been waiting to answer you till I had read far enough on in your storyx to be able to judge, and now being within a quire and a half of the end, I think I can do so. I think the history of the elder Juliet very original and excellent and I like that about young Josie very much likewise, she is a very winning buoyant creature, but indeed I ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith I did not write yesterday as I had to go to Winchester, and besides my sister in law had not quite finished reading the M S. The part about Horace’s marriage I do like, and the softening, but I am very sorry you adhere to the early part - especially his father’s repeated wishes for his death. If you could only hear the horror of my mother and my sister in law ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith I so seldom see the paper that I did not know that this greatest sorrow that can befall one’s unmarried life had come upon you. It takes me back at once to ten years ago when I was tasting the same cup, and strangely enough there was the same connection between the sorrow and my first real success. How you must feel the change & the sorrow for others as well as ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith I do not know any more about the cheque. I wrote my own name on the back as it was to order, and I thought that was the right thing to do. The last was drawn upon Saunders and Otley who I believe are Indian agents, but I suppose that a banker would either cash it or tell one how to manage it, but Mrs Elphinstone’s letter only said what you see.

Thank ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith Here is for Georgie who really has been a most brilliant and successful story that every body has liked. I wonder when you will have another such to send me. It is a long time since I have heard of you, but I hope you have been well. This has been a sad winter in many ways.

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Smith I remembered with consternation this morning that I had never answered about your poor girl. I hope if we had had a vote to give that I should have behaved better, but the fact is that there is a child from the parish where my grandfather was Rector whom we must vote for till he is disposed of. I always feel very sore about that Asylum, having subscribed for an idiot of ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith Thank you for the Acrostic, but I had decided on leaving that field to the Magazine for the Young, which always has a batch of Acrostics at Christmas. I have so often refused them on that score that I could not take these. We guessed all except the two Es, which I do not quite understand, unless it means Edward and Elizabeth - and for Idiot too we had to go to ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith, I am ashamed and concerned at not having answered you sooner. If I had known of any thing more likely to suit your purpose than Mr Ridley’s book, I should have done so, but on Saturday I waited to see whether Sunday would inspire me with any conjecture, and I am afraid I must confess that then I forgot it My experience of school work is altogether country and of girls, and ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith, I am in a little puzzle about this paper of yours. It ought to be in the August number, for by September, I suppose the exhibition will be over, and I am afraid there is hardly time to give it the touches without which I am afraid I cannot take it. It seems to me that there is too much of biography and not pictures enough. There is such a long piece ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith, Your story is capital and I am very glad that the power of writing no longer seems to be crushed out of you. The only things I have to say are that I think a little guarding is wanted (which I would do in a note) to shew that part of it is playful since Church restoration is not altogether matter of taste, and some of the deformation was really luxury, family ... continue reading

Amiable Beloved Can dear Eyes feel great hope in joy kindling lonely Margaretta’s notions of procuring quarters reposefully secure through united votes with xpressed youthful zeal - ?

The alphabet will not serve me to express that I never gave you the direction to the lady who will try to get votes for Miss Erle, and here it is. Mamma is very well and bright. The Chair is to be sent for to be inspected at home

your ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith Thanks for the Exhibition - which is full of interest. I wish there was any chance of my seeing it. I like most of what you have said much, though I do not agree with your deprecation of Dr Hook’s character of Edward VI, for certainly his own journal does not bear out the praises bestowed on him, and it was rather forward to say the least of it in a mere ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith, Thank you for your kind, warm hearted letter. I know you too know what a great grief is, and how close one clings to the last surviving parent, and the sense of being still a child at home. May you long preserve that blessing.

I should be very lonely but that my brother and his wife are only a garden’s length from me, and most kind, and just at present I have a ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I did not ask you for the purpose as you may see by my having lost your address and being obliged to send this to Cambridge to be directed on.

I thought it a pity you should not at least hear of it, and at any rate the child is not black!

If you think of it will you write direct to the lady. I am going out and must finish as fast ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I am afraid I do not quite remember the terms of the advertisement Can you send it to me again or its substance within the next few days. I ought not to have sent it or the address to her friends away but things do so accumulate that I am glad to make space! Here is a query which concerns you, and perhaps you will answer direct as ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Will you let Miss Carter Smith as before order some of the Scripture Readings at the price to the trade.

I wish Clay would finish off that last volume. He always sends me a proof when I am busy. I send more copy. Then he stops for another 3 months. I have now finished within about 12 chapters, but I shall be in Devonshire after Tuesday for 6 weeks, however a letter here will ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

It is very pleasant to hear from you again. I think I shall read your paper to our mothers next Friday as part of it. We only began last winter- our clergyman’s wife to do the executive and I to read to them Alas! this spring we have had the terrible and unexpected loss of our good Vicar. He was only 42, and in full work, when struck ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

Thank you, I like the beginning very much, and I think it much to the purpose, as you always are. I hope it is not to turn out very melancholy, though I have my fears. The Church going is very pretty and calm. But I cannot help thinking that though the favoured inmates of the pew do feel the shelter, and the associations, the poor had much less chance ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

Thank you for the end of your story which I like very much. Here and there you may have been a little discursive, and possibly abridgement may find out some bits. About the incongruity of wreaths with the feelings of the last generation I quite agree with you. We /elder ones felt it so with my dear old uncle who we knew held it as a frivolity, and ... continue reading

My dear Christabel

There is a nice little life of the Black Prince by Louise Creighton in Rivington’s series of Biographies. Also G P R James wrote a nice long romantic life of him which might be in old libraries, and Canon Warburton has a life of Edward III in Longman’s Epochs of history. I can’t understand about the grown man schools, but Mr Green is pretty sure to be right. I cannot ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I do not like to lay more revising on your eyes, but since you propose it, I think it would be safer. Armigel’s surname is a very undetermined matter, though I think you mean it to be Griffiths, by which I think Gladys is rather victimized. I think it will be certainly better to omit the engagement which does spoil the generosity of the act, and has not been prepared ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I am sorry to say your story, even with a little abridging, comes to 63 pp, and as that is nearly a quarter of the Christmas no. I had to give it up with another which I liked almost as well, but was 53 pp, so I am afraid I must keep it waiting for the end of Paul and Virginia and put it into the regular M P. I like your ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I hope to begin upon your story in April but could you be so kind as just so to touch the beginning as to take out the allusions to Manners makyth man, or people will trace that it was meant for the Christmas number. Could you let me have it again about the 1st of March.

And one thing, could not the name be reversed, for I think the young people really ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

I with I could have made room for this very amusing account while it is fresh, but my October number is full, and I must give it up

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Smith

Thank you much I will keep the story for the final selection. I think the mistake is excellently done, but I am not sure that the girls’ taking the journey on purpose to defy Mr Ritchie is not too dreadful.

I am so glad you have brought out Dulcibella again

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Smith

I am terribly bound up with present matters of necessity but I will hunt up Delicia and see what I can do with her, though I know May, June & July are pretty full But I will put her in type, and then she will be sure of getting in soon (after Magazine calculation of soon)

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Smith

I am much entertained by your Scarborough paper as I remember those Rivaulx terraces some 25 years ago, the only place where my sights coincide with yours. I only wish I saw more present prospect of room for it! You must be one of my oldest contributors. Did you not like Miss Sewell’s paper on family traditions

yours sincerely C M Yonge