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To Edith Sophia Jacob
April 27th [1867]

MS Charlotte Mitchell1

My dear Edith
Having always so heard and thought of you it seems the more natural. I was sending a parcel to Dr Moberly’s, and so put yours with it. Alas – what shall we do when it is Dr Moberly’s no longer-!2 You will find, shut into the book a paraphrase of some lines in German that Alexandrine wrote when she sold her pearl necklace – they were written out from the Month.3 I mention it lest you should find the paper astray and be at a loss where it came from.

The gates of Paradise are gone to the printer and I shall probably send you a proof in about a fortnight.

Have you seen the Copsley Annals, it is a very pretty book that does not seem to be enough known, and it is just the thing for superior village libraries.

yours very sincerely
C M Yonge

1Black-edged paper. CMY used black-edged paper for all the letters we have found dating from the next two and a half months.
2George Moberly resigned as headmaster of Winchester College in 1866 but the family’s holiday home, Field House, remained theirs until July 1868.
3Alexandrine de la Ferronnays, sister-in-law of Pauline Craven; her adventures are described in the latter's Récit d’une soeur . In The Pillars of the House Mr Audley likens Sister Constance to her.
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/2166/to-edith-sophia-jacob-7

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