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To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Sept 9th [1868]

MS British Library Add MSS 54920: 210-11

Dear Mr Craik
I send the lacking Cameo.1 I have found things needing correction in three sheets of the Chaplet of Pearls, and I am searching for a sentence that I know was spoilt for want of a not – but the whereabouts of which I can in no wise as yet discover. If I do not find it before tomorrow’s post, I shall send the sheets to you which I have corrected for you to judge as to the importance of the matter.

The unlucky thing was that none of the books I had told me Sir Francis Walsingham’s age, and thus I made him an elderly man when he was but six and thirty and his daughters young ladies instead of small children. I antedated Sidney’s knighthood, too, and in these days any anachronism does not do. I have only just got Fox Bourne’s Sidney which cleared it up2

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1The Cameo concerning the Edward I's conquest of Wales had accidentally been omitted from the book version.
2In the end she dealt with this problem by adding an apologetic preface to The Chaplet of Pearls, in which Sidney and Walsingham are characters.
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/2266/to-george-lillie-craik-6

One Comment
  1. Ellen Jordan says:
    June 4, 2011 at 10:12 pm

    The letter dated March 6th (no year) and beginning “Thank you for the ₤25. I should much like to have Mme de Witt as a contributor ” seems to have been left out.
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