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Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester
April 10, 1872

MS location unknown. Printed in Coleridge, Life, 302.

My dear Sir William
Thank you greatly, I thought just as you do that it was rather a needless question since I was quite sure of the fact of what Mr. Keble said to me, and I should not have asked you if it had been any one else who advised me, but having asked him it seemed wrong not to do just what he told me.

Miss Dyson is a devoted lover of King Charles, and had been vexed to see any words of Mr. Keble used against him. Besides she said, and truly, that Mr. Keble’s chance conversational sayings did not always reflect a deliberate opinion, and the point was whether this did or not reckon as an opinion thought out and considered, which is my decided impression.

Yours affectionately
C. M. Yonge

1Mary Anne Dyson had wanted CMY to remove a reference in Musings over the Christian Year to Charles I being careless of the truth. CMY referred the question to George Moberly, with whom she was staying.
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/2443/to-sir-william-heathcote-bt-7

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