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To Edith Emma Butler?
[1861]

MS location unknown. Printed in Romanes, Appreciation pp. 97

[To a daughter of the Rev. W. J. Butler.]1

A sort of notion of locating a story at Market Stoneborough had made us look up the Mays and find out what they are doing now.2

Blanche and Hector are just married, and Aubrey, having proved too delicate for Eton, is Ethel’s faithful pupil still, and Flora’s house is very well managed, but so stupid, and Mary is married to a clergyman.

I have changed the cart accident into Dickie tumbling off the Minster tower on the roof, when he slid down on a skylight and stuck, till Leonard got him down and stopped the bleeding from a terrible cut in the leg.

1Romanes identifies the recipient only as 'a daughter of Dean Butler'. The possible candidates are Grace Harriet Butler, Edith Emma Butler and Mary Avice Butler.
2The Trial: More Links of the Daisy Chain began to be serialized in MP in January 1862.
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/1847/to-elizabeth-barnett-or-edith-emma-butlerfootnote1

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