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To Laura Belinda Charlotte Valentine
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
July 18th [1868?]

MS University of Iowa; MsL/Y56va

My dear Mrs Valentine,
I have got my Armada story home, and on looking over it, I think it will answer your purpose very well, but I must copy it out again to take out the real names and to improve it. I suppose about 70 or 80pp of the size of the specimen I send which is the first chapter.1

Please return it, when you have glanced over it, and tell me if it will do. The scenery is real, but I have changed the names and transposed that of the river – the Yealm. I think the boat would make a pretty illustration.

How ingeniously the young ladies playing at games have been varied in the Home Book!

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1It sounds as if Valentine had solicited a contribution to one of the annuals she edited for Warne.
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/2256/to-laura-valentine

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