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To Ann Maria Carter Smith
Elderfield
[21 August 1866]

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

1In envelope addressed to Miss Smith/ 8 Wellington Road/ Old Charlton/ SE and postmarked Winchester 20 August and London SE 21 August 1866.
2In fact the Magazine for the Young was increasingly making a feature of acrostics, not just at Christmas but throughout the year.
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/2131/to-ann-maria-carter-smith-74

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