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To Katharine Olive Helmore
March 19th [1866]

MS Charlotte Mitchell/Cobweb-81

My dear Cobweb,
You have been very ill used, but first Fanny Patteson was here, and I was idle, and since that I have not been well and have been more idle. The Acrostic is capital – I always like those that are all quotation- and I am very glad to see the composers going on, this last is a very entertaining piece1

Pray excuse my great stupidity
your affectionate
Mother Goose

1Tiny blue envelope 92mm x 54mm addressed to Miss Helmore/ Cheyne Walk/Chelsea/ London/ S.W. postmarked Winchester 19 March 1866 and London 20 March 1866.
2Helmore was contributing a series of articles on composers to the Barnacle.

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/2107/to-katharine-olive-helmore

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