My dear Miss Cole I well remember the day you spent here five years ago, and all I have heard of you from the Colborne family.

I am afraid though that it is not of much use for your friend to send me a fairy tale of any length, as I have rather an overflow on my hands of the lighter department and I cannot put in anything of that sort of many pages or of long ... continue reading

Dear Miss Cole I am much obliged for your book which I am sure I shall read with much interest as the fruit of so many thoughts

I hear from Mrs Montgomery Moore from Rawal Pindee which at least is near that beautiful Cashmere though she never will be happy in India.

Elizabeth is at Dittisham

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Miss Cole

I have been a long time answering you, but I waited to see Mrs Moore and hear more about the matter as it is one in which I hardly felt competent to judge. I am sure it is an excellent purpose, and I send you my shilling, though my country life is so utterly unconnected with anything of the kind that I can be of no use

yours sincerely C M Yonge