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Dear Madam I am much obliged for your offer but I am afraid you have been forestalled as we have had two papers upon Palermo and Taormina by Miss Florence Freeman, written and we could hardly go over the same ground
Yours truly C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Miss Freeman I see how it has been about your Pleiades. You see we printed a large slice of them, though not the whole and we did not think you would care for the mutilated remains.
I cannot tell how we missed returning your St Chrysostom.
Three more sums have come in but no regalia
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Miss Freeman I am very sorry if there is any mistake about one of your webs. Did you send an address and a stamp with it? We cannot return them without the latter, as when we get 20 answers or so it would be large undertaking for our finances!
If yours was late, it may have missed mention in the printed list. I get the whole parcel sent down on the first day of the ... continue reading
My dear Miss Freeman Many thanks for the extract. I am very glad the answer has come to be gibbetted! People ought to have the penalty of exposing themselves so wonderfully.
You and Moneyspinner (Miss Marriott of Hythe) are the most effective Spiders.
I have taken her sum, because she did it in a conversation, but your nines, for nobody else attempted them
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Mr Freeman,
I am going to take two or three days more that I may finish up Philip IV and his three disagreeable sons, who will complete the 2nd chapter - the 3d is to be the Hundred Years War, the 4th the Italian wars, the 5th must go from Louis XIII to the end of Louis XV, and ought to be called the Absolutism of the King. I expect you will find ... continue reading
My dear Miss Freeman
The first week in May will suit me very well and I hope we shall be at our best between banksia roses and nightingales. I am afraid however that I really have only room for one and that I must not have the pleasure of having your sister though I am very sorry to be so inhospitable, but when you see our household you will understand. I have a friend ... continue reading