Dear Miss Higginbotham I think you will find the beginning of the stories in the Castle builders & Countess Kate, which are in the hands of Innes, 31 Bedford Street Covent Garden.

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam If my coadjutors can make room your paper shall go in but there is a sad crowd of appeals

yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan I have been looking for Innes’s accounts, (I send the agreement drawn up with him and Tanner in /93.) but there is no mention of the Castle builders in it nor in any of the subsequent accounts, which go to /96. I cannot find a later one, though I should have thought there would have been one in /97.

I think the book must have been out of print when he took the ... continue reading

My dear Lottie I put off writing till the 19th was over, for it really was a very interesting day, though I little knew beforehand all they were going to make of it. About £1800 was collected for the scholarship, and this was presented, with a beautifully illuminated address, by the Bishop in the High School, making a wonderful speech about having read the Little Duke when he was a small boy, and all that ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes, Miss Gaye wants to have her M S back that she may know what to do with it.

I believe you know Miss Cheape’s address, if she is not at St Andrews, would you get a proof of Christian sent to her - I sent up two chapters, but I think I can only put one in.

Miss Tanner. I think you had better send to the care of

Mrs Sidney Lear the Close Salisbury

I ... continue reading

My dear C C I am glad there are some signs of life or of decay more properly of poor A D I- ! I do think there are more and more signs that a 6d phoenix would be welcomed.

I find the booksellers make all sorts of excuses for not having got it – The Authors Soc want to see my agreement before advising me. I could not find it easily before I ... continue reading

My dear C C Here is a behind the times letter that concerns you. I have heard from Mr Thring, who says I can remove my books with proper notice, but as I don’t know how long proper notice is, I have written to ask, also he thinks there may be trouble about those of which A D I gives Royalty and on the older ones there is no agreement. I asked if ... continue reading

My dear Mary I remember Charles Archer at Winchester and he once or twice called on me. Harward and Fulbert must be nearly the only ones left except Mrs Tolcher. I think Fulbert was a little while at Winchester. I sent you my idea of the insulted sufferer on a card yesterday I thought at first of Zechariah the son of Jehoiader, but that did not quite to suit and I do ... continue reading

My dear C C If I were to be dissected while I am alive, I think you would do it tenderly, but indeed I have always shrunk from seeing the lives of living people and my whole old fashioned nature revolts at the idea partly personally, and partly because I know how those who are gone would feel about it, so indeed I do not think it is possible to my feelings and I hope ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes Thank you much for what was useless trouble. I thought Stanford was sure to have had such maps reasonably cheap for travellers. There is a good little geological map of England in Letts’s atlas, but the book is very badly bound, and that one map in my copy has some how been lost.

I think there are small editions of Keith Johnstone- but his publisher is Blackwood, I suppose he has an office ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes I shall be glad to have fresh editions of Beginnings of Christian History and of the Pigeon Pie.

My engineering nephew has routed up an atlas of Keith Johnstone of manageable size. If that does not prove sufficient I shall try Cassell

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Innes I have the Unfashionable Concert somewhere it is one of those things that if they cannot be put in at once, get set aside for fresher papers of the charity kind I can’t make any promises about putting it in so I think I had better return it. I hoped to have found it this evening , but a visitor, and twilight prevented me. I have grown more wary at last about ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes, I hope there are still some Castle builders left for a lady in Portugal wrote a few days ago to ask me if it was still to be had, and I answered that it was. I suppose the Modern Landmarks are put out by later books.

I am concerned about a long series of scientific papers on the physical structure of the Earth. I accepted them some time ago from Miss Gaye and spoke ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes I am very sorry to see Miss Cheape’s proof did not reach her. You told me about a month ago that she had sent a fresh address but as I had sent her the proof of Mr Valentine full a month before - (or rather I knew it had been sent) I did not suppose it applied People never forward proofs, they always take them for advertisements.

By the by today’s ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes, I have disposed of Mr Hutchinson’s Stars except for this one chapter. I found when I wrote to him that he had not meant to contribute a regular course but miscellaneous papers now and then. I want however to get the Engineering recollections in America into this volume. They are 7 but short, very entertaining and one may be doubled. The story is short too. I have not got Miss Sewell yet, but ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes, I do not suppose the understanding was ever absolutely clear, I have certainly always paid over £20 to Miss Finlaison half in summer and half in winter, and I have, as you say had £40 in summer, and £50 in winter, but I an impression that I had £10 more for the Christmas number. Indeed I am quite sure that Mr Smith gave me £10 more for the subeditor, and that I made ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes, We shall have a good Christmas Number. All I have is excellent, and would nearly suffice

But will you consider whether it would not be better to change the printer of the Packet - Clowes has never been attentive since it was transferred to them. You know I have made continual complaints of inattention to directions, and Miss Coleridge says the same. Promises of amendment have been made, but without effect, and since the ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes, I give my consent to the increase of your commission from 10 per cent to 12½ per cent.

We must sacrifice Gretchen and Archaeological Moss to Sister Florence who is more worthy. We cannot give up Rowling Manor-

Miss Coleridge did correct that tessellated mask - and you see she has marked on this revise that one of her other corrections this time was not attended to! I believe the defect must be that Clowes ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes The Castle Builders and Six Cushions are out of date, and need not be reprinted- unless as is just possible, Macmillan might like to purchase them for the sake of making up the set of my books.

Questions on the Epistles has never been of much use, so few Sunday Schools go on far enough to want them Nor has Sewing and Sowing been popular. I am sorry for Langley Little Ones for ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes I send the Cameo that had better precede this one returned. I found that I had repeated Frederick the Great &c; and must alter.

Yours truly C M Yonge

Is it not time to hear of my accounts

Dear Mr Innes, Votes coming straight to me, and votes going first to Miss Coleridge made a certain amount of confusion - and four for Rowling Manor dated Jany 30th, came in just at the end and carried it up to 14 votes while L’Epine Noble has twelve --- So I suppose it must be the prize one, though my own judgment would not have gone that way.

Thank you about the stamps - ... continue reading

My dear C C You may as well see this remonstrance of one of the old fashioned goody souls Mrs Crocker her name seems to be. She goes on afterwards about ‘Amethyst’— and I won’t send that, for it is all misunderstanding. I wrote a defence of Cherry and Maisie saying that she was in a process of growth, and I also explained the scope of Amethyst and that you are not a dangerous person, ... continue reading

Dear Mr Adams I think such papers as you kindly propose would be very valuable but my colleague, Miss Christabel Coleridge must be consulted, and likewise the publisher Mr Arthur D Innes, 31 Bedford St Strand

I think as you are in London it might simplify matters if you would call on him, as he would tell you about length of papers and terms and I believe we would find the papers very interesting

Miss Coleridge lives at ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes Thank you for your kind letter, I suppose there will always be rubs of opinion when three people representing different generations of thought work together if in general principle they accord; and I know I am apt to despise popularity more than perhaps is fair in fellow workers to whom it is more important

As long as there is nothing irreverent tending to ‘Higher Criticism[‘] or to trenching on delicacy I am ... continue reading

My dear Lady Frederick I am afraid I cannot give you more than a week, and that the 6th must be the last possible day. I believe I am going to look over the MSS. with Mrs. Sumner and send them off on the 1st, but we can add your report at the end. I hope you are really recovered from the influenza. People are having it at Winchester, but rather slightly.

I always ... continue reading

My dear Mary I send you the Melanesian paper; would you do as the Bishop asks, and send him your address and two stamps, and so get the paper regularly sent to you? Partridge sends me a terrible number, and now they are not to be gratis to subscribers. We have told them to send in their names to Bishop Selwyn; it is getting rid of a good deal of bother.

Moreover the [[other:52]Monthly ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I hope to send all but the three or four concluding chapters of my story, A Release or Caroline’s French Kindred tomorrow

I should very much like them to appear in St Nicholas, but the difficulty is that the really first part is in the Christmas Number of the Monthly Packet for 1893, and if this story appeared separately, I must rewrite the mise en scene, as I suppose the republication of Caroline’s ... continue reading

Dear Madam I am very sorry I cannot help you to Ben Sylvester. I have not even one of my own except in a bound up volume, and the copyright is not mine. But if you enquired for it direct from Innes they might find a last copy, or be stirred to a reprint.

yours truly C M Yonge

My dear C C It was for Monthly Packet articles that I extracted the payment, and the stock of the books that were my personal property were handed over to Macmillan. This offer from the family must be for the actual sales that had taken place since there was an account; but these agents did not try to explain it, so I can only ‘take the goods the gods provide me’ if they do for ... continue reading

My dear C C It is a cruel stroke to lose Lanty at the same time as M P You must feel desolate like Othello. Aimée Leroy has an idea, and may write to you about it, anent M P She says she has seen A D I’s business advertised to be sold. I have not, but I think my notice was sent in time. He has taken no notice, ... continue reading

My dear C C Did you ever hear that the treaty between Fairfax and the Cornish army was signed at Heaths Court. I never heard of it but Sir Mount Stuart Grand Duff staid with John and says it was signed in the old part of the house Perhaps dear old May was ashamed of such doings, and I should not have thought the house so old, as I remember it, and I ... continue reading

My dear C C I confess that though I mourn over the Manes of the M P I am personally a little relieved, for I was considering what I could honestly personally undertake or allow my name to be used for, in relation first to Truth, secondly in public spirit to the Church and girlhood, and thirdly in justice to kind helpers and endeavours for a fresh start. Helen has been reading the early volumes ... continue reading

My dear C C Do you know that Innes’s stock has been taken by Ward & Lock? I heard it second hand from a lady who has been enquiring after her goods. I suppose you had the letter asking creditors to accept 5 per cent. I asked what was become of the remains of what was half mine and half theirs and was told that Tanner did not know. I think we ... continue reading

My dear C C So you are to have a new Bishop, I am glad Lord Salisbury is there to have the choosing of him. Our elections have gone off quietly, and our neighbour of Cranbury is at the head of the poll at Southampton. Winchester is not settled yet, but for the county no one opposes old Mr Beach, who I believe is the father of the House The Mallocks are ... continue reading

My dear C C I shall be very glad to see you on the 7th or 8th, I trust you will find Helen here as her ship is due before the end of this week. She sailed on the 18th and was to take ten days –weather being good, and to look in at Cadiz and Lisbon on the way. She will be able to tell you about Ronda &c. You will find ... 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 Innes

Thank you. Mr Smith generously sends me £50 in January £40 for my editorship and £10 for the subeditor. The other payments this month are for

Angela, Miss Alice Weber 10 Randolph Road Maida Hill

The Georgian Princess Miss Dempster Villa Rey Cannes

(She is author of Vera and rather a great gun, so should have full pay)

Papers on Rome The Rev Wm Jeffreys Hills Beaufort Road Winchester

St Paul Miss Selina Gaye 14 Artesian Road Bayswater

Miracle Plays Alfred Pollard Esq British Museum

Old World Legend Mrs Keir Moilliet Abbot’s Legh Malvern

I ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes

I am afraid I never answered about the MS. It will not do being too much of the mere novelette. I do not object to such dénouements, but a story ought, I think to turn on something besides.

Miss Coleridge has £5 a year for her work upon Debatable Ground. I do not know if that was mentioned but she has not had it yet. I think you have her new address.

I think you ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes,

I have just managed to insert time in the notice in my last proof - Is it impossible to consider the separate sheet of class list-? Church history takes up 5 pp this time, and if another 5pp is absorbed, what will be left of the poor old M P- ?

I suppose £25 is the first sum, but it is curious to find how time and trouble in literary matters are in inverse ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes

If you look at the notice at p. 499 of the May no and 599 of the June you will see the fees as to questions fully explained. In fact I do not know what more there is to say about them.

Bishop Jenner has carefully looked over the Prayer book Lessons and returned them to me and I am going over them with his criticisms. Half is quite ready if you want it ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes,

People are continually writing in the Autumn to ask me to tell them of cheap easy dramas to be acted by their pupils - gentle or simple. I have just had to decline two such plays for the Packet because I do not think they suit in a magazine and I have no room but I do believe that to published them in a very cheap form at so much per dozen copies ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes

Miss Robertson’s two papers Home Daughters and Power are quite safe, only there has not been room for them yet. Does she want them back?

I find I cannot get Plataea into the Christmas number, it must come in a regular one. I sent off the bill of fare for the Xmas no yesterday. The first story is Friday’s Child, which I think would afford the best illustration. The little boy listening to the ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I am exceedingly sorry for this, but I have nothing to do with those advertisements which are entirely the publisher’s affair I will send him your letter at once

yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Innes

I think you must have heard from Mrs Lennard by this time, as she mentioned, in a letter I had yesterday, having heard from you. I was out all day and could not write.

Miss Hugessen is ill and cannot do her paper this month but there are to be retrospective questions. I think the same notice will do. I will write the notices but I think I shall have to ask for an ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes

The copies to Canon Warburton were for presentation to the Central libraries of our Diocesan Society for Higher Religious Education.

I imagine that half a sheet will be quite enough, giving me 4 pages besides those for index and title which I always grudge but I cannot tell till I get the list of make up.

I see Chapman and Hall’s M S will not do. I much dislike stories in dialect and indeed I ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes

Next year’s programme is my own Two Penniless Princesses - historical longish chapters. Miss Agnes Giberne has promised a story - and the Storm in a Teacup has to go on another half year I tried doubling the chapters, but there was not room. I think it is a mistake to sacrifice the story to the volume, as often in those I read, I see the development has been injured to get ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes

Thanks for the cheque. I think it is a very good thing to cheapen Womankind, especially as it is getting a start through the Mothers’ Union taking it up. It will also be well to have New Ground at 2s Mr Scarth of the Waterside Mission is very anxious to have Friday’s Child published separately for the sake of the sailors. I believe Miss Crompton has been urged to write to you ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes

Many thanks for the account and the cheques for which I enclose receipts.

I will keep the Molyneuxes till you return, as they give much pleasure here. I think it should be observed to the author that there is an inconsistency in making the estate come through the mother and then placing a Molyneux ancestry there.

Also I think the Baptism of Eggs is an expression not desirable in a child’s book.

When you return there ... continue reading

My dear Frances

Thank you for your letter. We don’t deal in squills, but I have just brought in various primroses and violets, though there was hardly a berry for the Church. However the holly leaves are much finer than when the berries have starved them.

Gertrude was tolerable and could enjoy her cards and presents, and shells go on as her great delight at present, that wonderful step-step father of hers has an endless variety of ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes

I specially desired Clowes to put two chapters of the Norse Literature in type, and send them at once, because Miss Oswald wanted time to send them to Iceland. You said there was no reason they should not. Now they have just sent in the proof of only one - so that they have evidently never heeded my letter.

I am sorry because Miss Oswald must think it my fault.

Yours truly C M ... 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

My dear Miss Acland I am sending Pompei (it does not look natural) to Christabel Coleridge at Cheyne, Torquay, and it will be more convenient for her to let you know about it, as I am not the sole dictator of Packet now, but one of a triumvirate - being really, I suppose, rather dropped behind the present world.

I fear that any how the diagrams cannot be brought in, but that the publisher must decide, and ... continue reading

Dear Mr Innes I think as you propose Langley Adventures ‘Langley School’ Royalty at the rate of 2/3 of a 1d in the shilling on the published price. ‘Langley Adventures’ Royalty at the rate of ¾d in the shilling on the published price beyond the first 2000 sold which are free of royalty, in the case of Langley Adventures only: twelve copies counting as twelve in all cases.’ might be transferred to you, and the ... continue reading