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To Christabel Rose Coleridge
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Sept 24th [1867]

MS Mrs Clare Roels1

My dear Christabel
Here is the September Barnacle – the binder has really made it so, though it ought to be the Midsummer one. I suppose that great MS ought to go round with it as I suppose no one would have patience to copy it out in the right size2 It was very stupid and this thin Barnacle would be much the better for it. Will you put in a note to that effect when you write the orders. I have only the conclusion of Two and Two3 towards another and I go to Ottery on Monday and to Puslinch on Wednesday next for a month, so the answers should come to me at Puslinch (Yealmpton) if they are not ready before Monday –

In haste
yours sincerely
C M Yonge

Giftie I shall be glad of whenever you can send her – or wherever.

I have two old Barnacles here waiting

1Endorsed ‘1867’.
2The copies of the Barnacle were assembled from material written by contributors on their own paper, and though member of the Gosling Society were begged and exhorted to use a standard size, the pages vary a good deal in size and shape.
3Two and Two, a story by Frances Peard (Fern Seed) features in the last extant volume of the Barnacle (Michaelmas 1867).

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/2207/to-christabel-rose-coleridge-13

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