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To Elizabeth Barnett
[Summer 1864]1

MS location unknown. Printed in Romanes, Appreciation p. 102

I have been entreated to send Dr. May to cure her [Ermine], but I think that would be past even his capacities!

There is no heart

breaking about him [the Colonel]; with Rachel, she had made up her mind to immolate her affections at the shrine of her asylum before she found out that she was in no danger. Now I believe in her.

1The request for plot changes to The Clever Woman of the Family suggests that the letter was written while it was being serialised. The serialisation took 17 months, and the incidents referred to come in the first third of the book.

2From The Daisy Chain.

3Romanes’s parentheses.

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/1966/to-elizabeth-barnett-11

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