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My dear Christabel
Thank you much for Giftie. She looks very pretty and I like her picture. Yes, we will, if we can, have a Christmas Barnacle. I have one capitally illustrated paper for it already from Sparrow Hawk.

Shall we send out the Questions for December, or January, I mean shall they go New Years day, or the month before?

I think we are to have a new Gosling –

Emma Butler
Wantage Vicarage
Berks.

Would you send her the rules, and the names, omitting alas Turkscap, who has grown too busy. Have you seen her pretty story, ‘Nigel Bartram’s Ideal’ a shilling book of Warne’s

yours affectionately
C M Yonge