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[Summer 1864]1

MS location unknown. This fragment printed in Dulce Domum, 175.

My dear Alice,
I was thinking of sending ‘The Mice at Play’ to Maggie, but somehow I felt that the note must be to one who could remember the old days, when the three bright faces2 it brings to mind were with us. If you had been people who shrank from such recollections instead of cherishing them, I would of course never have disinterred this old affair, but I know you will like the recurrence to those merry old days and bright remembrances.

1This is printed by the author of Dulce Domum as part of a group of fragments with dates ranging from May to October 1864.
2Two of the faces must be those of Alice’s second brother, Arthur Moberly (1840?-1858), and second sister, Mary Louisa (Moberly) Ridding (1838-1859). The third person was perhaps WCY.

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/1961/to-alice-arbuthnot-moberly

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