Dear Mrs Charles

Thank you most heartily for the book you have been so kind as to send me. Such lives as those always remind me of that saying of Sir Walter Scott that Mrs Hemans preserved - ‘Do not say that noble blood is wasted, it sends down a roaring voice through all time’

May it lead to fresh worthy deeds -

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

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Dear Mr Freeman, This is delightful and will make the Cunning Woman really worth having. I am afraid I must not keep her to pick up more witchcraft but I should like to know what a witches’ ladder is. The Coleman was a strange chance coincidence. I have changed them all into Coles! The Tayles was a misprint from a mistake of mine undetected - I believe Watts is really ‘Their nature, too-’ I have an old copy ... continue reading