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To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield
Decr 11th [1886]

MS British Library Add MSS 54921: 159-160

Dear Mr Craik

I do not think I ever got the Dedication back from Balmoral I know I have seen it in type, and that it needed no correction and so – on receiving your telegram, I wrote to Clarke.1

I did not think there was any occasion for a preface and I do not think the Queen’s name should be introduced without special permission which it would take long to get, and most likely might not be granted.

I will however send a few words to Clarke saying that I can claim accuracy for the Outline as it has been carefully revised by the best authority.

As tomorrow does not affect Edinburgh post, he will get [it] in time, and I will write it so clearly that he need not send a proof. I will tell him so.

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1This relates to the publication of CMY's Victorian Half-Century, published to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and dedicated to her daughters. Clark was the printer.
Cite this letter


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/18100/to-george-lillie-craik-73

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