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To an Unknown Person
[early January 1872]

MS fragment Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Gratz Collection: Case 11, Box 14.

I am going to Lichfield from Monday to Saturday of next week – to talk and look over letters of our noble martyr with the Selwyns. I believe I am to manage the putting his life together but it will be more editing than writing. I seem to have thought of nothing but the wonderful symbolism of the work of those unconscious savages.1

Your affectionate
C M Yonge

1CMY refers to the murder of the Rt. Rev. John Coleridge Patteson in the Santa Cruz Islands. It was reported that Patteson’s body had received five wounds, as Christ's had.

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/2433/to-an-unknown-person-9

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