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Her manuscript is to be published, mentions “Effie’s Year,” which she was paid 30 pounds for, she will let Harper’s decide on a title, clarifies what she told him about their income, 5 pp., 18 November 1879.

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Program to Wakefield Grammar School’s Queen Elizabeth’s Day is pasted in, lists E. Bell, Charlotte’s son, as playing Mr. Justice Stareleigh in “Selections from Pickwick,” dated 20 November 1879.

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She disagrees with his speech on grammar, she thinks it is very important to learn, her book about Ulysses is much better then many others on the same topic, she wishes they would include illustrations, Eddie’s performance is today, 9 pp., 20 November 1879.

Scope and Contents Written to Elizabeth Dennistoun Wood Kane, the publication of her book, glad that TLK thinks she should take the small amount offered ($50) in order to pave the way to becoming a professional writer, Bessie’s time as an author will come, but Charlotte hopes it will not be for Mormonism: “you forced yourself into sympathy with the Mormons: all for the love of Tom . . . you must be yourself, not Tom’s wife, when you write . . . Tom can’t help being ‘contrary’ and heretical,” 8 pp., 27 November...

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She wants Harper’s to give back the “‘slips of my book,” so she can give it to an “old London Publishing Firm,” whose name she doesn’t give, 4 pp., 22 November 1879.

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Sends a letter for Bessie, which Wood can also read, Katie sees New York as the “Paradise of her dreams,” 3 pp., 27 November 1879.

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They are all sorry that Wood wasn’t a candidate for reelection to the Board of Education, urges him to write his memoirs, 7 pp., 3 December 1879.