Ever affectionately.
P.S.—I thought you might like to see the flourish again.
Mr. W. H. Wills.
Boulogne, Wednesday, July 27th, 1853.
My dear Wills,
I have thought of another article to be called "Frauds upon the Fairies," à propos of George Cruikshank's editing. Half playfully and half seriously, I mean to protest most strongly against alteration, for any purpose, of the beautiful little stories which are so tenderly and humanly useful to us in these times, when the world is too much with us, early and late; and then to re-write "Cinderella" according to Total Abstinence, Peace Society, and Bloomer principles, and expressly for their propagation.
I shall want his book of "Hop o' my Thumb" (Forster noticed it in the last Examiner), and the most simple and popular version of "Cinderella" you can get me. I shall not be able to do it until after finishing "Bleak House," but I shall do it the more easily for having the books by me. So send them, if convenient, in your next parcel.
Ever faithfully.
Mr. W. C. Macready.
Château des Moulineaux, Boulogne,
Sunday, Aug. 24th, 1853.