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My dear Henry

Many thanks for all your trouble. It is too bad of Mr Macmillan ¹ even as Editors go, who are a tiresome set, but pray do not be afraid of offending him. They are all the more civil for self-assertion on the part of their aspirants; & if he does accept it, pray do not let him have it without a positive statement of good pay – & no further curtailment. You can act more freely as your name is known, & commands respect, & your also are acting for another person. Certainly not less than 10/ a page, I should expect, & if such an article is taken at all, it should be 15/ – I have been looking at all the monthly advertisements of contents of various Magazines & of those I can see, only two seem to have the kind of articles which M^rs Campbell would suit² – The Cornhill, & the Covent Garden; – but neither Chambers, nor Fraser’s, which I think very likely, nor the Gentleman’s Magazine, are advertised at all.³

Pray be bold, & refuse everything doubtful without my consent – & if it does not suit for my finances, or is not taken as it is, I should wish to get it back as soon as possible – unless you would not mind trying Fraser – but I am bound to offer it to Chambers first, so I must get it back.

Y^r aff. Louisa C. Frampton

Sir R. Cristison is very kind⁴

Lulworth Villa S^t Mary Church
Torquay – July 5

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H. Fox Talbot Esq^re
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham