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To Katharine Olive Helmore
Otterbourn
Jan 20th [1862]

MS Charlotte Mitchell/Cobweb-5

My dear Cobweb

Your book is come, and as it will not travel by the post well, I am going to send it to London by Mr and Mrs Pode1 – Will you let me know whether they shall leave it anywhere for you or send it on to Chelsea by parcels delivery

I have not been able to settle the prize questions yet as all the answers have not come in.

Owl2 sent me a very tough set of questions the other day, but I have since heard that her brother is very ill, so I do not know whether she will have time or spirits to reconsider them

your faithful

Mother Goose

1John Duke Pode (1832-1921) and Augusta Boevey Crawley (d.1900), first cousins to CMY and each other on her father’s side, had married on 30 August 1860. Augusta Pode appears among the Goslings in some lists and she may have briefly belonged to the society before her marriage.
2Owl was evidently a member of the Gosling Society, but has not been identified.
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/1853/to-katharine-olive-helmore-6

One Comment
  1. Ellen Jordan says:
    March 17, 2011 at 10:19 pm

    Could “anywhere or you” be “anywhere for you”?
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