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To the Right Reverend William Walsham How
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
St Stephen's day [26 December] 1884

MS Charlotte Mitchell

My dear Lord Bishop
A great many thanks for the poem. I will mark the MS so that the printers should send the proof to you I hope early in January. The story is very touching as you have made it. I wonder how many such tragedies there are going on, unknown.1

I shall always be grateful to it for having brought me your Christmas blessing

With kind regards to Mrs and Miss How.

yours respectfully
C M Yonge

1The story recounted in How's poem 'Told at a Village Inn to a Naturalists' Field Club on a Wet Day (Founded on a Fact)' MP (February 1885), 101-9, concerns the younger son of a squire, clandestinely married to the vicar's daughter, who dies in America unbeknownst to his family.
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The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske.

URL to this Letter is: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/yonge/17084/to-the-right-reverend-william-walsham-how

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