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To the Reverend Henry Octavius Coxe
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Novr 10th 1864

MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: MS Eng. Lett d.418.ff 154-155

My dear Mr Cox [sic],
I dare say you will be so kind as to give me a morning in a Bodleian den some day next week1 –

Would you be so kind as to order for me anything you can find about Maximilian I of Germany – and about the city of Ulm in his time – I want as much anecdote and scenery as I can lay my hands on, wishing to represent him cutting capers on the Cathedral tower.

I have Cox’s house of Austria, and that is all my present stock in trade – English and French books by preference if you please

Hoping that this is not a very troublesome request
Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1CMY and her mother were planning to stay with the Warden at New College. (See letter to Macmillan dated 11 November 1864). She was looking for background material for The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest which she had just begun to write.
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/1992/to-the-reverend-henry-octavius-coxe-2

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