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Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
June 11th [1863]

MS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1863/41

My dear Miss Smith,

I am half afraid of plunging into a tour because I have got so many on hand, that Eastern journal is indeed printed to the end, but I cannot get it in, and the Journal in Holland lingers on, and I have some Italian letters that I grieve not to have got in, so on the whole I think I had better decline yours, though if I had not been so ‘furred up’ as Hants people say I should have liked it very much.

I must confess to having betrayed you to Florence Wilford She so very nearly knew that I was obliged to tell, but I think she is very discreet. She has been staying a long time with her aunt nursing a sprained foot, but is now gone home.

I heard of nothing amiss about the postage of your last proofs.

yours sincerely

C M Yonge

1Black edged paper, black engraved address Otterbourne, / Winchester, the word Elderfield added above Otterbourne. Envelope addressed to Miss Smith / 8 Wellington Buildings/ Charlton/ SE and postmarked Winchester 11 June 1863 and London SE (date illegible).

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/1892/to-ann-maria-carter-smith-61

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