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To Mrs White
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Jany 17th [1873?]1

MS University of Pennsylvania

Dear Mrs White
I cannot remember Miss Evelyn Gee’s present address, so would you be so kind as to forward this note to her containing a request from some one in Sloane Street to print her Eagle Story, which certainly has been a great favourite2

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1Another example of this paper dates from July 1882.
2CMY’s bank account records the payment of £5 to Miss E. Gee on 10 April 1873, the only one to a person of this name. A story ‘What the Church Eagle Said’ appeared in MP (?Christmas 1872) 4. Evelyn Gee (b. Herts. 1843/4), daughter of the Rev. Richard Gee, Vicar of Abbots Langley and later of Windsor, who married 1880 Richard Rivington Holmes, librarian at Windsor Castle, seems a plausible candidate. He has an entry in ODNB, which states that she survived him. No separate publication of the story has been traced.

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/2470/to-mrs-white-2

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