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To Christabel Rose Coleridge
Innocents day [28 December 1872]

MS Mrs Clare Roels1

My dear Christabel

Thanks for the grand faithful Gosling card, which is capital. These two Escorials are all that Goosedom has produced2 I never expected any thing of it at Christmas They both seem to be of the childish good kind. No, I have not seen Garnstone. Warne is not very liberal of his books. I don’t know what school children would do but for the happy dispensation that makes their own people prefer them to all others! Our mistress is I believe to visit a friend in your parish next week. I can’t say I prefer her to all others! She is quite devoid of the moral influence her predecessor had

your affectionate
C M Yonge

Florence Wilford’s Aunt died on Monday-

1The paper has an ornamental decoration: 'Dear Friend Accept This CHRISTMAS Greeting Heart with Heart in Memory Meeting'.
2The Goslings had been asked to write an essay on ‘The history of the Escorial’, a theme proposed by Pixie (CMY to Mary Fursdon, 15 November 1872)


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/2466/to-christabel-rose-coleridge-78

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