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To Florence Freeman
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
May 18th 1874

MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: Bryce 156 (microfilm) ff21-2

My dear Miss Freeman
Many thanks for the extract. I am very glad the answer has come to be gibbetted! People ought to have the penalty of exposing themselves so wonderfully.

You and Moneyspinner (Miss Marriott of Hythe) are the most effective Spiders.1

I have taken her sum, because she did it in a conversation, but your nines, for nobody else attempted them2

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Freeman had taken part in the Spider Society essay competitions in MP.
2This confirms the identification of Freeman as 'Pisa', for MP (July 1874) 8, prints 'Money Spinner''s 'Multiplying 4265 by 3902' and comments 'PISA is the only one who has "cast out the nines"'.
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/2505/to-florence-freeman-3

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