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To Gertrude Louisa LeGrand Jacob
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
April 30th [1873]

MS Charlotte Mitchell

My dear Gertrude
I hope your chapter1 will be of a length that will fit happily into July. I will do my best for its coming in. Here is your Twilight2 which please look over, and it will get in when there is room. I do not think I am likely to come to London I have had two outings – to Chichester in Easter week and last week to the laying the 1st stone of Keble Chapel and I don’t think I shall make much of an expedition till the opening of Mr Wither’s Church I wish Crawley was on this side Winchester3

yours very sincerely
C M Yonge

1The first chapter of G.L.J., 'The English Raja: James Brooke', was published in MP 16 (August 1873) 135-46, which ran until August 1874, and was published as Gertrude L. Jacob, The Raja of Saráwak : An account of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., LL.D., given chiefly through letters and journals (London: Macmillan 1876).
2G. L. J., 'Twilight' MP ns 16 (July 1873) 100-104.
3Jacob's father was Rector of Crawley, near Winchester.

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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/2472/to-gertrude-louisa-legrand-jacob-3

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