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To Marianne Bigg Wither
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
July 20th [1867]

MS Royal Institution of Great Britain, XVA/186/32 f.63/1

My dear Marianne
If I had more time I would send you more thanks – I am going to have some of the big head done but how soon I cannot say. The alias of the other is the Bandit’s Bride.1 I think these are a little better first look. I am so sorry about Good Words. No one knows where it is. Dear M A. So many thanks

your most affectionate
C M Yonge

1When CMY was at Puslinch in the summer of 1867, her cousin Duke took a number of photographs of her many of them in the garden. The two referred to here are probably those held by the National Portrait Gallery, London, and catalogued as NPG x5575 and NPG x38898. The 'alias' was taken from The Bandit's Bride; or, The Maid of Saxony.: A romance by Louisa Sidney Stanhope (Minerva-Press: 1807). Copies of NPG x38898 were later sold to raise money for building a school in connection with the Church of the Resurrection, Eastleigh.

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/2195/to-marianne-bigg-wither-6

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