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To the Members of the Gosling Society
[March 1869]

MS Mrs Clare Roels1

Cackle
Mother Goose having gone out on her broomstick she has had to delay the answers. They are not many in number this time, for Chelsea China’s popularity and Windermere’s Wars of the Roses are decidedly the superior articles. Cricket is the next to ask the questions.

Mignonette and Sparrow Hawk retire

1Black-edged paper.
2This seems to be the only surviving example of a 'Cackle', one of the circular letters with which CMY communicated with the members of the Gosling Society.
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/2307/to-the-members-of-the-gosling-society

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