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To Elizabeth Charlotte Curteis
July 10th [1872?]

MS UCLA: collection 100: box 95

My dear Miss Curteis1
Your queries shall go in next time but is your Eagle & Goose story ready.2 If it is I should be thank [sic] to have it next week, as I am going from home, and I meant to get the number made complete before I go. I direct this to Leasams as Exmouth seems too large to find a stranger without further address.

I am dismayed to find that I have lost your queries. I must have torn them up by mistake for your note. Could you send them again though I am ashamed.

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

I have found your queries—but about the story? Can you let me know about the chances of it? If you have not finished it, I fear I must not have it, as the numbers are full.

1Name partly erased.
2This cannot refer to the story signed C.D., 'The eagle of one house is the goose of another', which appeared in MP (December 1864), 602-626, because it is by Christabel Coleridge. It therefore seems more likely that this letter refers to the making up of the Christmas number for 1872, which had the proverb as its theme.
Another possibility is that these 'queries' refer to one from 'Mrs. S. C., Leasam, Rye, Sussex', who asked to borrow or buy Uphem's Salem Witchcraft in MP (July 1875) 96; and to an answer to a question, signed 'B.C.C.', which appeared on the next page. Bessie Curteis published in MP under the intials 'B.C.C.'.
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/1963/to-elizabeth-charlotte-curteis

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