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[12 January 1866]

MS Mrs Clare Roels1

My dear Christabel,
I should have said that I think you must specify your stones, there are such a frightful number- Pray have opal and turquoise- One for its weird history, the other for its nature- but exclude all the stupid ones, like garnets &c or we shall be swamped – I shall send the parcel on Monday – Meantime I send you the grand Goslings acceptance2 – I think Fernseed must be her name – Ladyfern & Magpie keep on after all. This Fernseed is to be directed to as

Miss Peard
Sparnow
Torquay

your affectionate
Mother Goose

1Endorsed ‘January 12 1866’.
2Frances Peard’s answer to CMY’s request that she join the Gosling Society.
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/2098/to-christabel-rose-coleridge-8

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