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To Elizabeth Barnett
[1865?]

MS location unknown. This fragment printed in Romanes, Appreciation p. 181

I hope you have Eugénie de Guérin.1 You are one of the people to like her especially and extremely, with her sweet religious, pastoral spirit and . . . devotion to her brother. I am exceedingly in love with her myself.

1CMY contributed an unsigned article on Eugénie de Guérin to the Christian Remembrancer in 1864. Lettres d’Eugénie de Guérin (Paris, Didier 1865) was also reviewed in the MP 29 (March 1865) 297 as ‘Additional Letters of Eugenie de Guerin’.
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/2001/to-elizabeth-barnett-12

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