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To Christabel Rose Coleridge
Wantage
May 31 st [1870]

MS Mrs Clare Roels 1

My dear Christabel
The Goslings will not die. I find we had better kill the useless members, and get some quite young ones in keeping the questions easier- We have now left only Cricket, Frog, Double Daisy and Pixie to whom is to be added

The Honble
Alethea Colborne,
Beechwood
Plympton

I am not sure what she is to be called 2– Can you still be Secretary even if you have no time for the Questions? It would be a great help to me. Frog 3 proposes a new one but I have not the particulars of her yet. I am going home on Thursday I have had a very pleasant expedition all round Devon ending with Torquay and Ottery. Frog suggests the Goslings writing their criticisms below Cackle, which would be amusing, I think

your affectionate
Mother Goose

1Black-edged paper.
2Mary Fursdon was told Alethea Colborne was to be Bluebell on 10 July 1870.
3CMY was staying with Frog's parents the Butlers at Wantage Vicarage.

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/2382/to-christabel-rose-coleridge-64

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