My dear Miss Yonge The MS. reached us safely. I will [illegible] distribution in the months

We shall be very glad to see you when you come to town. It is just possible that I may be gone to America, but my wife & sister are at home; and we recently made a valuable addition to our neighbourhood , 'the author of John Halifax',whose husband Mr Craik, has become my partner, has taken a house quite near ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge on money [?] I enclose a cheque as usual. I am off on a brief holiday to Scotland, my American trip being abandoned for this year. I hope to be home for good & may it be so - by the end of September and quite looking forward to seeing you when you come to London in October. In case you have any point of importance to bring before the press, a ... continue reading

Dear Sir, Mr Macmillan asks me to answer to you the lady’s enquiry about the Strayed Leaves, which are strayed indeed!

The fact was that I wrote a sort of conclusion to Heartsease, which was called Last Heartsease leaves. It was not worth publishing, but it was printed for a bazaar some years ago, and I have never heard the last of it. I put it at last into the last number of Events of the Month, ... continue reading

Dear Madam, I am not aware whether “The Clever Woman” has been translated, but perhaps you will answer the enclosed yourself.

Dear Madam Yours faithfully Geo: Lillie Craik

Dear Miss Yonge I am home again and at work, having greatly enjoyed my holiday.

I hope to see you soon in London. Will you kindly give us notice when you are coming. I am anxious to see what can be done, if anything in the way of a vignette for the “Dove”.

Yours ever truly A. Macmillan

Many thanks for the information you kindly sent Mr Craik

Dear Mr Macmillan Our start from home is fixed for the 30th of this month. I suppose there is no chance of my getting any copies of the Dove before I start. I was obliged to delay further by having a revise of the preface where the printers had contrived to make a good many gratuitous mistakes. I never knew Messrs Clay so long printing anything. If there is no chance of your sending me a ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan, I have now had time to think over the Book of Heroes, and have been making out a list of those whom I think worthy of the name.

But two or three difficulties occur to me.

In the first place is not the name too much like Mr Kingsley’s mythological book? People could never be expected to keep 'the Heroes' and the Book of the Heroes distinct in their minds. I think if I had ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge I suppose you [illegible] the translation of Alexandre Dumas & after some difficulty we have a shabby copy which I am sending by post.

We will be glad to have the whole M.S. when it is ready. You can either send it to Miss Martin or to us

Yours very [illegible] Geo Lillie Craik

Dear Miss Yonge The end of the M.S. reached me with your letter. I at once sent it to the Printer. Whatever alteration you may wish to make either in [illegible] or modifying can be done in the proof.

Miss Martin - whom I saw yesterday - agreed with me in this.

Yours very [illegible] Geo Lillie Craik

Dear Mr Craik I am very happy to agree to this arrangement and thank you for providing the early sheets. Is it not however Holland that is concerned and not Denmark?

I am in a difficulty of my own making. I signed an agreement in the spring with one Mr Hugo Borges that he should have the early sheets of the Chaplet of Pearls to translate for a Roman Cronik as he calls it, which he and ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik, I hope this letter is a sufficient acknowledgement of the £25, as I have no receipt stamp at hand and this village does not provide such articles, and as they must not be bought of the unprivileged I cannot beg or borrow too often from our worthy neighbours at the shop

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Miss Yonge Yesterday Mr Craik paid £200 into Hoare’s in your a/c. I hope my not telling you before will have caused you no [illegible]

I am very sorry you do not like the illustrations. It is now impossible to get fresh ones done, and pardon me saying I really like them. I hope you will get reconciled to them by and by

[Rest of letter indecipherable as is the one, dated 22 January 1868, that follows]

My dear Mr Craik, I am dismayed at what I never found out till the Saturday Review called my attention to it - ie that the Cameo about the conquest of Wales was left out.

Such a Cameo there was written, it is at Vol IV p. 6 of the Monthly Packet, but it must have been neglected when I was collecting the Cameos and the printing was done so very slowly that I lost the connection, ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I send the lacking Cameo. I have found things needing correction in three sheets of the Chaplet of Pearls, and I am searching for a sentence that I know was spoilt for want of a not - but the whereabouts of which I can in no wise as yet discover. If I do not find it before tomorrow’s post, I shall send the sheets to you which I have corrected for you to ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan I shall see Miss Johns on Saturday and have a consultation with her.

I have been prevented from setting about the Storehouse by the almost sudden death - the first day of this month - of one of my dear cousins - the one on whom I relied for looking out the copies of the books that I was to have from Puslinch. I have not been willing to trouble her sister to ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I have just finished a story called ‘Two Penniless Princesses’ about the two daughters of James I of Scotland who went to visit their sister, the wife of the future Louis XI, and found her just dead. It is in 12 chapters, each taking from 12 to 16 pp of the Monthly Packet, where half has appeared. It is to be finished there in December. Is it well to take any steps ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I much fear that you may be, like all the world, taking holiday for there is a scheme on which I much wish to consult you and Mr Macmillan, and which needs to be matured before the Church Congress in October.

I must explain that a good while ago, a society [was started] for raising the tone, religious and moral of the cottage women in a Hampshire town-village. This has spread till now ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I send herewith the story of ‘The Strolling Players’ - from the Monthly Packet. The joint production of Miss C R Coleridge and me. It joins to the Beechcroft series. If you could tell us what the royalty would be the division would be easier

Yours truly C M Yonge

I suppose Mrs Gordon has called about the Chicago books

Dear Mr Craik Would you be so kind as to direct this letter on to Miss Frances Martin. The address on her letter was printed in some ‘old English type’ and after much consideration I decided that the word looked more like Carrara than anything else but the Post acknowledges no such place.

Thank you for your letter. I think this will suit us, but I will write on to Miss Coleridge. If you do not ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik In a day or two you will receive from the National Society a story of mine called Grisly Grisell. It was written for them, but has turned out too historical for their purpose, and as a tale was wanted to be coupled with ‘The Rubies of St Lo’ I think it will serve the purpose. Mr George Macmillan knows all about the Rubies, which are in the Christmas number of the Monthly Packet.

Grisly ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I return the receipt with many thanks.

I quite agree to your decision about the Rubies of St Lo not being attached to Grisly Grisell as the only connection between them is that Henry VI is mentioned in each.

I could add a chapter at the end to Grisly Grisell, as I was afraid to wind up all the characters lest it should be too long, but it may perhaps be better to finish where ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I shall be very happy to have the Little Duke and the Dove in the Eagle’s Nest manipulated for schools. I should think there would be little to do to the Little Duke as it was written for children. I should have thought the Lances of Lynwood more suitable than the Dove as being on English history.

I know the Eversley country is full of beauty, I once drove through it. I believe there ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I cannot at all tell whether this is the right length, as the only ‘Golden Treasuries’ I have seen are my own and I do not think they have introductions.

I can easily add biographical details if you wish it to be longer - but I like to write to my own sense of the needs of the subject and to add or diminish afterwards as required.

Do you know whether Mrs Ritchie is abroad. ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I see that your ‘house’ appears in the list of subscribers to the Surgical Aid Society. Do you think one or more letters could be spared to me? A little child was sent from the Society for protecting Waifs and Strays with a lame foot paralysed after measles- to be boarded at a cottage here. She is now in the Orthopaedic hospital, but she requires a boot and irons, and the expense is ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan Some years ago Mr Craik wrote to me that the sale of the Cameos of English History had so fallen off that it was not worth while to give me £100 for the copyright of the volume after it had appeared in the Monthly Packet, and I therefore discontinued thinking of the separate publication. I think the volumes ended with the Restoration

Since that, and especially lately, so many people have asked for ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik I see you are advertising Highways and Byways in Spain. I should be much obliged if I might have a copy as my Sister in law and her daughters are at Algeciras, where the husband of one is Vice Consul. I am expecting the elder one to return before the end of the month, and the book would be much enjoyed by us together.

I am glad Modern Broods is doing well. ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik It was like old times to see your writing again. I have no doubt that it is right about Forget me nots but I see so many stories advertised even before they are really finished in their serials that I thought it was time to see about the matter. In fact it is a ‘goody story’ only about school mistresses and quite short. I think it might in time be ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik ‘Enquiring friends’ kept me in such a whirl on Saturday from the moment I came home that I could not acknowledge the very agreeable parcel I found waiting me, which I need not say I was very glad to see. It is certainly a pleasant amount to look forward to and I see that it does not include the sum for the Abridged Edition of Bishop Patteson, any more than for Lady Hester.

I ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I have stupidly lost Mr Freeman’s London address - would you be so kind as to send it to me on a card. I want to settle about divisions of chapters in the French writing. Shall I finish all, and then abridge, or do you want to begin printing?

yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Mr Graves

I am afraid I must not take Second Fiddles though I am much obliged to you for it. We are changing our printing house, and I want to have only matters of necessity on my hands just now.

Mr Craik is going to send me a photograph of Bp Patteson’s sculpture. I hope we shall have it in the next edition.

yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

Clay has sent me proofs of the French history, but would it not be better to wait to print till I have finished, as the limits are fixed?

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

Could you give me any idea what is the value of my copy rights, I do not mean that I want to part with them, but it would be convenient to me to know what is likely to be the full value of my property, and what I could raise by them in case of need

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

Thanks for the estimate of the copyrights, which is a good deal what I expected, as I thought they must be more valuable to me than to anyone else.

I cannot think what Clay is about. A month ago he wrote to me in a great hurry for more copy of the Cameos saying you wanted the third volume finished, I sent him up at once all but the last two or three chapters ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Many thanks for this payment, which considering that I had £400 before ought indeed to satisfy me.

I wonder when Clay means to go on with the Scripture readings

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

Thank you for seeing to the books. The thanks for them from Wantage arrived the day before yesterday, but I could not write before as I only came home from Oxfordshire and am paying the price of my four days holiday by having more letters to answer than I can manage

yours truly C M Yonge

Did I say how charmed I was with your bright little sister in law?

Dear Mr Craik

I think a letter of mine which I wrote last week to the ‘house’ must have been overlooked at least in part. I asked for a copy of the Heir of Redclyffe to be sent to myself, and a set of all my books to the Sisterhood at Wantage who want to have them to lend from their branch at Bombay

The one I asked for has never come and I have not heard ... continue reading

My dear Mr Craik

I am rather anxious to know the upshot of the new arrangement which we were to have this year into the details of which I do not think we went.

What however is really important to me to know quickly is whether I am likely to receive enough at Christmas to warrant me in promising a payment of £250 - remembering that I have had £200 in advance

I want very much to ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Many thanks for your letter, I send the agreement, with which I am quite satisfied. I also send by train four nos of the Christian Remembrancer containing four papers

Folk Lore & Old Stories

Lord Seaton & his Regiment

The La Ferronays family

Eugenie de Guérin

There are also- only I have not disinterred them Miss Sewell’s Principles of Education and the Life of Bishop Mackenzie but these will be enough for you to see whether ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik,

I return the Agreement signed with many thanks. I shall be quite satisfied with the arrangement about the £1000 for the copyright being paid half next March and half the March after.

One book you do not mention, the Christian names, I should be very glad if the end of that could be so got rid of, that I could cut it down correct it, add some recent discoveries and something about surnames, ... continue reading

My dear Mr Macmillan

There is something in Mr Freeman’s essays that he wants me to look at. Would you be so kind as to let me have them - it is the volume with Charles the Bold in it

I hope the two French histories will come out right at last!

I always suppose some one is making holiday in August so I shall direct this so as to be opened by either you or Mr Craik

Yours ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I am sure I ought to be satisfied, considering too the sum for the copyrights in March, but just one question. Have I ever been paid for the last volume of Cameos, I do not think I have, as it came out just after last years settlement I have always had £100 for each volume.

I am afraid I have been very stupid about both French histories and I am still waiting for ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

It is a beautiful engraving, and I am much obliged for your kind proposal. But I don’t think anything can be made of the ladies of the Crusades for those about whom much is known were not very edifying characters and the good ones are pretty much lost in the light of their husbands.

But what would you think of a history of the wars between the Spaniards and Moors- from the Moorish conquest ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I have got into a puzzle how to manage with the further Scripture readings. Clay has printed them so slowly that I have only gone on with them when the arrival of proofs has warned me that copy would be wanted. And now I find that the volume has come to its regular size - about 250 pp in the middle of the Acts - i e when St Paul is at ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

About the name of the Spanish book which certainly is rather suggestive of the uncomplimentary riddle ‘What is the difference between Truth and Fiction? History and Her story My book is really both - a bit of real history, and then a collection of the wonderful stories and ballads about it.

I do not know any book that does combine them both, and I want to mark that this does.

I shall send ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Many thanks for the payment which comes pleasantly early this year.

My Spaniards and Moors are progressing, but I suppose I had better finish all before I send them, as if abridgement is needful it is better done on a whole than on a part.

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

I enclose the receipt with many thanks for the cheque, also for Bp Patteson and the loan of Islam.

When I can, I should like to add to Bp Patteson that the mission has learnt the manner of his death, and that it was the women who placed his body in the canoe and sent it out to meet the boat. I have not a copy left of Pioneers and Founders, so could you ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I send 4 chapters of the Story of the Moors I will send some more as soon as I have touched it up. I think you may reckon on 30 chapters - 22 are written and bring me to Peter the cruel, but the actual siege of Granada will take up a good deal of room

About the little French history, I went over and added to the sheets as far as I ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

They have only sent me the first 19 columns of the French primer, which I had [illegible] and which only want a little correction of the [illegible]. What I want is the latter half which I know was once set up, but which has not been lengthened, as this earlier part has been

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

I am exceedingly puzzled. I am sure I wrote on to the end of the history of France, and that Mr Greene had it and wrote to me that it only came to 86 pp, and that I must make it longer. What can have become of the latter part? What did he go upon if he had it not in type to the end? Besides, I believe I had it in ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I am afraid the last 3d of the Primer is lost. I will re write it after my outing. Happily it is only 40 pp at most - I hope waiting will not be troublesome. Here is another instalment of 'The Story of the Christians and Moors in Spain'

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

I send the end of the Story of the Christians and Moors. It makes 27 chapters, and I think more would outrun the limits besides the history of the poor Moriscos is so piteous that I do not like to go into it

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik Please send me a copy of the Dove in the Eagle’s Nest.

I have got some of the books I wanted for my article from a school inspector, but I am afraid my ideas are not much more definite than when I saw you as to what would be likely to be of use - as I fear there is no book on English education analogous to Mr Arnold’s on German and I ... 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

Dear Mr Craik

Thank you first for your answer about magazine rights. I am going to try the paper a little longer.

Next thanks for the account. I am very glad to know what I have to look to. I suppose scarcity of money tells more on the sale of books than anything else, but all things considered this is very good for the year 1878.

If I find that I want £100 or £150 in advance ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

You were so kind as to say you would let me have an advance on account. I should be very glad if you would send me a cheque for £150

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

One line to acknowledge the safe receipt of £150 on account with many thanks I don’t suppose you will receive this tomorrow but accept with it my best Christmas wishes

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

Many, many thanks for prompt payment, an agreeable sight on a winter’s morning I think the story in the Monthly Packet will finish there about next spring It is not longer than the Three Brides, but has been in short chapters. I have not finished writing it yet, but the beginning may be printed when it is convenient. I am correcting the Moors and Christians gradually, and will send the result ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I enclose the receipts and agreement with many thanks. I hope the Primer is doing well. One Blunder ought to be set right. I can’t help thinking it must have been a misprint. I knew it so well - ie that the Karling line had not died out - but been set aside.

I have done a good many correction to the Christians & Moors and will finish them up when wanted.

As a matter ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I hope my sending the corrections on this pirated American copy of the ‘Christians and Moors’ is not inconvenient; they sent me a dozen, and I preferred sacrificing one to doing so from /with my own last copy

The lists at the end must not however be used to print from as the Americans have massed them together with a fine disregard of chronology

I have I hope corrected the careless blunders, It is ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I will soon send material for the other pages. I have a queer little drama half written, and one or two other things that only require to be got into shape

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam

I am today sending your book to Macmillans 29 and 30 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, and asking if they can give you one of my books to illustrate. It might be a good plan for you to call there, tomorrow or next day. Send up your card and ask for Mr Craik or Mr Macmillan, mentioning my name.

If you cannot call, write, and say how the book shall be returned asking if ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Thank you for your letter, and your kind promise of £200 for this edition of Unknown to History. I hope the cheap movement will be successful. I own I should like to see the Heir of Redclyffe and Heartsease in shilling and sixpenny editions I think they would have a great sale.

Please let a copy of ‘Unknown to History’ go to

Miss Coleridge Manor House Ottery St Mary

I thought it would have come while ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I shall be happy to accept the terms you propose for the American Edition of my books. I hope they will spell their names better than in an advertisement I saw the other day of Ps and Os- and the Blest Woman of the Family- besides other pleasing inaccuracies

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Craik

There is a new volume of Cameos just ready to come out, ending at Queen Elizabeth’s death. I suppose it must be called ‘Wars of the Reformation’ I do not like the term Wars of Religion.

I am also finishing off Stray Pearls, which will be completed in the Monthly Packet in June, in 32 or 33 chapters - so I suppose it may come out about that time.

It is a sort of continuation ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I think the printing may be begun at once of Stray Pearls, and the proofs had better come to me as inconsistencies arise when tales run on long. And besides I always find that the printers make their worst blunders when their copy is in print. I suppose they set on their worst hands. Clay is sure to have the copy. It may very well come out in April - it will only ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Many thanks for the payment. The knowledge that the amount for Unknown to History is coming is quite sufficient for me at present. I have been kept waiting about the Christian Names by Mr H Jenner of the British Museum who promised to set me right about the Keltic mythology but I suspect has forgotten all about it. I am desiring him to let me have it again, and let me do ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I am afraid I am guilty about the Birthday book My consent was asked two or three years ago, and I suppose it was ignorance for it never struck me that such little scraps could be a copy right question, and it did not occur to me that I ought to refer to you. In fact I thought it a nonsensical project that would fall to pieces of itself, and as I had ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

The story I wrote to you about will be ready in less than a week. If I am not getting like the Archbishop of Granada, I think it is better than my last two or three. Shall I send it up to the printers? Which would be the most taking first title- Chantry House or the Mullion Chambers The second title must be the same in any case - the ConfessionsNarrative of A ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I am very happy to accept your offer of £25 for the Australian edition of Chantry House.

I wish I could disinter A Citizen’s account of the Bristol riots of 1832. It is referred to in the Life of Bishop Gray and said to be excellent; but I could not get it from the London Library, and I wish I could see it before the proofs of that Chapter of Chantry House are irrevocable.

Yours ... continue reading

Dear Miss Yonge

I had the proofs of ‘One Sunday Morning’ some time ago & corrected them carefully. There were several small errors - in themselves small but rather important as affecting the sense, but I daresay the printers will have made all right. I want to know if I may send you another short article I have by me just now. It is not original, being a free translation from the French ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I have been asked so urgently that I hardly know how to refuse, by a person who knows a good deal of the popular mind at Liverpool (being on the Committee of those Recreation classes, and doing much besides) to write a popular account of the fifty years of the reign, to be dispersed in preparation for the Jubilee Year. She says it ought to cost only sixpence, to be like a ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Thank you for your kind letter, I do see great advantages in the plan - but I confess I think it not possible to have such a book well and originally illustrated at such a price in any other way.

The doubt in my mind is whether the book would not - (to fulfil its purpose) have to be too common place in its facts to be on a level with the [[other:68]E. ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

You will think there is no end to me, but it may save more letters if you get this before seeing Mr Carr.

1st - Could some copies be put in boards for prizes for the Board Schools at Liverpool. I suppose they could tell how many, and others might like them

2d - . If I could have a list of convenient illustrations I could make them salient points

3d - As to length, ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

The printer can judge better than I but I do not think there is enough of the Quest of Ulysses to make more than such a volume as the Little Duke, so I think it had better belong to that Series.

Thank you for Lord Albemarles’ memoirs. I was waiting to do so till I saw what Mudie sent me, and his box is either delayed or lost, as I have just discovered.

I will ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Mudie’s books have come at last, after spending ten days on the road. Greville is there. And the Queen’s Journals.

Shall I return you the latter from the London Library.

I ought to have the Proofs of the Quest of Ulysses. I know I put Lord Balmerino into the wrong rebellion which is as bad as putting Dunfermline on the wrong side of Scotland as I did in Unknown to History.

So much for not verifying!

There ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Thank you for the Wilberforce extract.

It occurs to me that if the Jubilee history were put out without illustrations, and with more of the religious element than would be fit for the English Illustrated Mag. but would be liked by my own special world of readers, the publication if cheap, might answer /moderately. But you will judge when you have looked at the chapters I sent. They go about half way.

You would rejoice ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I should like to find out how much the lady cares who urged me to write before answering. Whether I will go on with this personal history, and whether time is still important, for it was the hurry that oppressed me.

The copyright of Householders and Thoughts on Pictures is mine.

I quite see that all ought not to come too much together, but I do think Householders is worth the having soon, for children ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I think I had better glance over the Shells.

I have begun upon the flowers but I find there must be a great revolution there, as it is no use in these days to teach the old Linnean system. I can manage by transposition, but it will take some time to set it in order, and I think it had better come in time for the spring, as it starts with the flowers of ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I have just heard to my consternation that there is a book called A Quest of Ulysses, a novel published a year or two ago.

Is it too late to change the name to A Modern Telemachus?

I have I hope got upon the scent of the original French narrative, so I must keep the preface waiting till I find whether I can get it.

The National Society think the [[cmybook:189]book about the ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I must go on with the Queen’s life now, for there is a letter from Sir Henry Ponsonby this morning, recommending me to dedicate it to the Queen’s daughters, which is a sort of acceptance. So I will gladly accept your kind offer of taking it and giving me half profits.

I never had much hope of the work and only was driven into it. I finished it yesterday, and send it off today ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

Many thanks for your letter and cheque. I am glad to see your writing again, and that the first dreariness of return has been faced.

I am glad the cheap edition is doing so well, it is capitally got up and bound, and I regret nothing but the Daisy Chain illustrations and those to the Trial. Those to the intermediate edition were much better.

I have had some correspondence about a story of the historical ... continue reading

Dear Mr Craik

I am very glad you approve of ‘the Reputed Changeling’ for a name.

He shall come on the 18th or 19th as soon as I have read him to an old friend and critic with whom I am going to stay on the 11th - when I shall put some last touches and corrections.

Yours truly C M Yonge

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

Dear Mr Riley Have you Mr H H Gibbs’s name-? He is either at St Dunstans, Regents Park or at Aldenham Elstree I should think no one would be more earnest in the cause than he. I would also mention the publisher - A D Innes 31 Bedford Street Strand. Old Mr Alexander Macmillan I am sure would but I am not so sure of his sons though his partner Mr [[person:379]G ... continue reading