MS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1866/21
My dear Miss Smith
Thank you for the Acrostic, but I had decided on leaving that field to the Magazine for the Young, which always has a batch of Acrostics at Christmas.2 I have so often refused them on that score that I could not take these. We guessed all except the two Es, which I do not quite understand, unless it means Edward and Elizabeth – and for Idiot too we had to go to the answer.
yours sincerely
C M Yonge