[ Charlotte M. Yonge, Victorian novelist.] Autograph Letter Signed ('C M Yonge') to 'Miss Sewell' [Elizabeth Missing Sewell?] regarding books, reviews and Hookham's Lending Library.

4pp, 16mo. Bifolium of grey paper, with letterhead printed in red. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded three times. The recipient is undoubtedly Elizabeth Missing Sewell or a member of her family, and the letter begins: 'My dear Miss Sewell, | I wish you could have accomplished giving us a day, hoping you might have found me in more lively and sensible trim than when you were here, when I had a headache just enough to make me stupid.' She is going to post her Roscoe's 'William I', which she got 'from the L[ending] Library'. She has not yet read the book, 'but a glance made me think we might get a good extract'. She will send it before 6 September, 'when we go to my uncle's in Devon, a place that always brightens me beyond all others'. She will write again before departing, and returns in October. Changing the subject she writes: 'I was much provoked with the Saturday [Review], it was such a specimen of people reading and misunderstanding things never meant for them. I am vexed not to have had the book yet, Hookham's Library never send above half the books one asks for - and they say it is because people will read nothing but novels'.