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To Henrietta Elizabeth Fursdon
Elderfield
July 29th [1869]

MS Mrs Katherine Wykes-Sneyd1

My dear Irene
You introduced the Young Gosling to me in her eggshell long ago, and I am sure the brood with [sic for will] be very happy to have her.2 I send [passage missing where signature cut out] is our senior member and chief manager. The first questions will come on the first of October, it is of no use to try to get them done in September. Even Mother Goose herself is going to fly across the Channel next Monday for the month of August.

[signature cut out]

1Black-edged paper.
2Henrietta Fursdon’s younger sister Mary became a member of the Gosling Society this year.

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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/2327/to-henrietta-elizabeth-fursdon

One Comment
  1. Ellen Jordan says:
    June 4, 2011 at 9:36 pm

    I think the letter to Henrietta Fursdon dated Decr 29 (no year) and beginning “Many thanks to you both for your answers to the Scripture questions” has been left out.
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