MRS. YELVERTON AND HER LITERARY EMPLOYMENT.

New Zealander, Volume XXI, Issue 2263, 1 November 1864, Page 6

MRS. YELVERTON AND HER LITERARY EMPLOYMENT.

Mrs. (LonGwortii) Yelverton in a letter to the editor of the Aberdeen Free Press, says : —“A most erroneous statement, copied, I believe, from your journal, is now going the round of the press, and as it is calculated to do me some injury, I hope you will kindly allow me to correct it through your medium. The facts are simply these. One of my junior counsel having in his possession a short manuscript story of mine, called “ Yarns from a Yacht,” sold it for the sum of £lO. The publisher changed the title to “ Tales of the though what a yacht had to do in the squares lam at a loss to explain. My counsel subsequently informed me that the purchaser would be glad to make an arrangement with me to write similar tales for a publication he was bringing out, and the remuneration was to be £3OO a year. I agreed to this, being wishful to maintain myself in independence by my pen or brush. I think it will be easily understood that during six years’ litigation for the maintenance of my honourable status, all own means, and whatever could be afforded by my relatives and friends have been expended. Up to the present time I have had no leisure to begin writing these stories, and consequently have not received any remuneration. I really regret your account is not correct, as the want of fortune appears to have been my greatest sin and in the present unsettled state of the marriage law, fortune might yet win her way where love had been despised, and a husband vet claim a wife’s earnings, as we have before seen In a memorable and aristocratic case.”