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To Blanche Catherine Medhurst
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
May 9th 1873

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection C0171: Box 29

My dear Miss Medhurst
I did hope to have put in this sonnet of yours in time for Ascension day, but I could not manage it, so I can only send you the proof and thank you for your kindness to Emmeline Spratt, who after her visit to you wrote the happiest letter she had written at all since leaving home1

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1In fact the sonnet waited a year to be published in MP (May 1874). Blanche Medhurst's social work had brought her in touch with Emmeline, the niece of CMY's maid Harriet Spratt.
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/2473/to-blanche-catherine-medhurst-4

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