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To Ann Maria Carter Smith
[July 18681]

MS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1867/ 3

My dear Miss Smith
Thanks for the Exhibition – which is full of interest. I wish there was any chance of my seeing it. I like most of what you have said much, though I do not agree with your deprecation of Dr Hook’s character of Edward VI, for certainly his own journal does not bear out the praises bestowed on him, and it was rather forward to say the least of it in a mere boy to meddle with the convictions of learned men. Thanks much for the whole – it is pleasant reading-

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1The paper has been cut about to remove the signature, address and date.
2A. Carter Smith’s article ‘National Portrait Gallery’ appeared in MP 1868 (2): 65.

3Walter Farquhar Hook wrote The Three Reformations (1847), Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury (1862) and A Church Dictionary (1864, 9th ed.)

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/2262/to-ann-maria-carter-smith-78

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