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Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
May 13th [1867]

MS Library of Congress1

My dear Miss Sewell
My senses have returned for thinking and writing indeed for anything but walking. It seems to me that we might settle a great deal in a June council, Mary Coleridge is to be here for a week at the beginning of the month otherwise we are quite clear. I will send you Freeman tomorrow. It seems to me that his first seven pages, with perhaps his 4th chapter abridged would be very useful. I have his leave and Mr Palgrave’s.2 I will have the introduction rewritten by the time you come. I think our critics will be puzzled whose style it is. We shall be very glad indeed to see you when you have time for a séance.

The Simeons have no Queen Emmas left but Savage may have and I will try there.3 Poor Captain Simeon lingers on but is worse every time we hear of him

1Black-edged paper.
2She had obtained Francis Turner Palgrave's permission to use an extract from his father's History of Normandy and England in the book of Historical Selections she and Sewell were editing
3This must mean 'no photographs of Queen Emma'.
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/2169/to-elizabeth-missing-sewell-7

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