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April 16th 1860

MS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/15

My dear Miss Butler

I am ashamed not to have answered you sooner, but alas it is too late for May or June either so long beforehand does the Packet make itself up. If you had put me in mind of it in February, I could have provided, now I fear we must wait till cuckoo time next year, and pray let me have the papers so early in the spring as to be able to provide for them. I hope to spend a few hours tomorrow in Wilton Crescent1, on my way to the Henry Gibbses in the Regents Park, I do not know whether for three days or a week, and I fear there is no chance of seeing you. I hope your Chilcote Park will prosper, what is thoroughly an amusement to oneself is generally so to other people, which I think accounts for the melancholy fact that the more people want money when they write the less they write anything worth reading. If you take up the Goose you will find much that is curious in Emerson Tennant’s Ceylon

yours sincerely
C M Yonge

142 Wilton Crescent was the London house of Elizabeth Barnett’s father George Henry Barnett of Glympton Park; she and her younger sister Louisa are listed with their father in the 1860 edition of Webster’s Royal Red Book.
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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/1790/to-anna-butler-18

One Comment
  1. Ellen Jordan says:

    “[[person:]Elizabeth Barnett]’s ” needs cleaning up.

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