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

Dear Mr Macmillan I believe I wrote before and asked whether you thought it worth while to revive two or three books of mine that have gone out of print. I have been asked about them again, which leads me to write. ‘The Two Guardians’ and ‘Henrietta’s Wish’ were published by Masters and went through three editions at least, then I heard no more of them and his business has been given up. The copyright ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I am glad you see your way to publishing these books on the half profit system I send the Two Guardians and Henrietta’s Wish shall follow, as soon as we can supply the first two pages which are gone from the only copy I can find

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan Many thanks for your cheque which was an agreeable surprise to me. I hope the experiment of cheapness will be successful.

The great day at Hursley is to be the 24th October so if we could have a few of the presentation copies of John Keble’s parishes, it would be a great boon

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

Dear Mr Woollcombe I am just come home from Devon. I will send your letter to Macmillan, I think he will consider that admission to a school will make it quite worth while to cheapen it. I will ask one of the partners to write direct to you. I hope your brother Robert has improved since I left Torquay, on Saturday, but the weather, keeping him indoors, is much against him

yours sincerely C M ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I enclose the receipts with many thanks

yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan I shall be very glad that the Rubies of St Lo should be published as you propose, I receiving /4 per copy sold. Thanks for the two school Lances of Lynwood. I am only just come home from Devon or I should have written sooner

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan I shall be very happy to receive £50 for the American copyright of ‘A Long Vacation’

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan Of course it will not make much difference to me whether ‘the Long Vacation’ appears in April or September, so it had better be arranged as you have decided.

I should prefer the Royalty of /4 on the American Copyright to an immediate sum.

Might I ask, as I have been before encouraged to do, for a copy of Dean Church’s Life and Letters and also for Sonny Sahib

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan I have a story within three or four short chapters of completion, which I should like to mention in case it should come within the scope of any autumn arrangements.

I think the title might be ‘A Release’. It is founded on a story that Guizot once told me that Mongolfier, the aëronaut gained the affections of a noble young lady, whose parents forced her to become a nun. She appealed to the ... 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 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 Macmillan I am very glad of your favourable answer about the Cameos. I shall be glad of the terms you propose - dividing the profits and you taking the risk, my object being to have them continued without expense

I am delighted to see the faithful and affectionate notice in the new number of the Magazine

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan I like the appearance of the proof copy of the Ben Beriah very much and perhaps it would be best to work out the edition. The doubt in my mind would be whether it will be favorably [sic] received as ranging with my tales and novels. I suppose there is no possibility of adding a preface now, I had not put one because it would not have suited in St Nicholas, and I ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I wish to consult you on a matter that I am taking in hand.

Hursley - beside the recent association with Mr Keble has a good deal of local interest connected with it. It has the remains of an old Castle destroyed in Stephen’s time, and the customs of the manor’ are all complete

There are a few curious local anecdotes connected with the place, and there is correspondence in Cromwell’s life about his son ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan

One of my very first ventures in publishing was ‘Kenneth: or the Rear Guard of the Grand Army’. J.H. Parker of Oxford published it, on the half profits system, I retaining the copyright. There were two or three editions but it has gone out of print, though I am sometimes asked how to get it.

Also, about 1850 and 52, Masters published Henrietta’s Wish, and the Two Guardians, republished from the Churchman’s Companion. Both ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I think it might be well to republish Kenneth. I would add a preface of apology for blunders

Yours truly C M Yonge

Dear Mr Macmillan I have been so often asked for a cheaper edition of my novels that I am delighted to hear that you are beginning on one of them, and I hope it will answer so well that you may follow it up with others

I hope by the 1st of July to send you the 'Parishes of John Keble’. It is being looked over by the Heathcote family now, and I shall not have it ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan Herewith I send the MS of ‘John Keble’s Parishes’ I shall be glad to know what you think the best way of dealing with it and what you think about illustrations.

There should be a map of the parishes which are locked together but I wait to get it drawn out till I hear about the size of the page

What would be advisable as to illustrations. We had thought of

Ruins of Merdon Castle Old ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I delayed my answer till I had communicated with the Heathcote family - at whose request chiefly this history of Hursley has been undertaken.

I rather expected them to demur at making the book so expensive to buyers, and was thinking over the possibility of starting with it much abridged, leaving out the Plan and the Customs of Merdon Castle, the Birds Flowers, descriptions of parishes and Words - and most of the ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I hope to send off the illustrations - or the material for them on Saturday.

I will write to Mr Portal, the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for permission for the portrait of Sir Wm Heathcote

Two books are with them - one (Lady Heathcotes) for the sake of the old views and plans - it is the original book by Marsh.

The other belonging to me is the Revd J.F. Moor’s written about 1860.

The ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan The Clerk of the Peace undertakes to ask the consent of Mr Portal and the Magistrates at the Quarter Sessions - so there is no doubt that this will be right.

Could the little wood cut of the Ampfield fountain (in the book) be inserted - And one view of the old Hursley Church would be liked

Otherwise the list is very satisfactory.

That likeness of Mr Keble has never been published, and would be ... continue reading

Dear Mr Macmillan I am asking Mr Medley (The Rev John Medley Tyntesfield, Bristol) to write to you direct about his Grandfather’s drawing. It is rather a question what he may feel able to do, as it does not belong to him but to his cousin. It is in a book, but whether only fastened in, or bound up I cannot tell

I have told him that in either case, book or drawing would be ... continue reading

My dear C C I hope the change will be a success. I did not know there had to be so long an interval, I do not remember it here, but as it was between old friends there might have been some arrangement. Wells Gardiner will not reprint ‘Forget me not’. I wonder whether I ought to try SPCK, they took Mary Bramston’s FL story last year - I don’t think Macmillan ... 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