<h2>To  Maria Edith Walker</h2><p>Dear <a href="people?person=2234">Madam</a>

I have found my <a href="otherbooks?book=619">Puzzle for a Curious Girl</a> - 2d edition, 1805, given to my mother ‘Miss Fanny Bargus’ as her name is written.  The illustrations are cuts, very tightly dressed, the father in knee breeches, the servant opening the carriage door in a cocked hat.  I was guilty of painting the first cuts very badly indeed

</p><p>I have also ‘the Little Queen’ in the <a href="otherbooks?book=620">Children’s Miscellany</a> where are also Little Jack and Philip Quarl.  I did not know that it had been attributed to Addison or an imitator.

</p><p><a href="otherbooks?book=615">‘The History of a Great Many little boys and girls’ </a>has been the favorite [sic] of 4 generations.  Where Tommy Piper was put into a tub by Mr Makegood, and Miss Mary Anne Selfish placed in the pig stye-  Miss Jenny Meek first appears in the <a href="otherbooks?book=616">Village School</a>, in my books. Was there a previous one?   These I have in a reprint, and I know an original Mrs Teachem, belonging to my cousin.  I have also in a tiny gilt book, really old <a href="otherbooks?book=618">Memoirs of a Pincushion</a> also <a href="otherbooks?book=617">Memoirs of a Peg top</a> and <a href="otherbooks?book=621">The Holiday Present</a> where the virtuous girl keeps her feet in the stocks when her mamma leaves the room, but the naughty one breaks her back and never grows any taller

</p><p><a href="otherbooks?book=239">Mrs Davenport</a> I have seen, but it did not belong to me. I think the West Indian girls were always naughty, being spoilt by their slaves

</p><p>yours sincerely

C M Yonge

</p><h2>To Arthur Donald Innes</h2><p>Dear <a href="people?person=744">Mr Innes</a>

I think as you propose <a href="cmybooks?book=163">Langley Adventures</a> ‘<a href="cmybooks?book=9">Langley School’</a> Royalty at the rate of <a href="others?other=160">2/3 of a 1d</a> 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 royalty may be paid when the sale exceeds 2,000. Langley School was one of my earliest books, and had very little value when Messrs <a href="others?other=108">Mozley</a> paid for the copyright

</p><p>I should like to see Mrs Walford’s <a href="otherbooks?book=671">Grown up children</a>

</p><p>Yours truly

C M Yonge

</p><h2>To Sarah Angelina Acland</h2><p>My dear <a href="people?person=8">Miss Acland</a>

I am sending Pompei (it does not look natural) to <a href="people?person=329">Christabel Coleridge</a> 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 <a href="others?other=52">Packet</a> now, but one of a triumvirate - being really, I suppose, rather dropped behind the present world.

</p><p>I fear that any how the diagrams cannot be brought in, but that <a href="people?person=744">the publisher</a> must decide, and they <u>may</u> think it long and minute

</p><p>A ridiculous fabulous history of me declared that I never permitted a Roman Catholic to write in the packet, which was very untrue[.] I once had <a href="people?person=1096">Kathleen O’Meara</a> and dropped her, not for her opinions, but for making the cannon fire a salute when William the Conqueror started for England, which destroyed my confidence in her <a href="otherbooks?book=673">‘Old Castles’</a>.

</p><p>I saw <a href="people?person=367">Mrs Cooke Trench</a> last week. The party have not started yet as <a href="people?person=655">Beatrice</a> feels bound to wait for young <a href="people?person=2118">Mr Compton</a>’s coming of age ball. <a href="people?person=665">Lady Heathcote</a> was then very unwell but was much better when last I heard <a href="people?person=663">Helena</a> was not well but not seriously, and I expect to meet her at some of the <a href="others?other=23">GFS</a> affairs next week

</p><p>Yours very sincerely

C M Yonge

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