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To the Hon. Laura Elizabeth Palmer
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
July 14th 1874

MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: Ms. Eng. lett. e.116 ff169-70.

My dear Miss Palmer
I waited to write to you till I had seen my way through the MSS, and I now see that Itys will come the first as a classical statement of the question1

If there is a frontispiece I want it to be from him. I am not sure however whether you had a new statue in your eye or not. Will you let me know if you had

There is about 1/10 due to your Red Cross Knight Shall I send it to you when I can get a post office order

I believe I shall be at Crookham the last week in August Shall you be at home then?

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1The Christmas 1874 number of MP was on the theme 'Least said, soonest mended'. Laura Palmer contributed 'Itys, the Faun', by L.E.P., which was the first story in the issue, and was the subject of the frontispiece.
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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/2507/to-the-hon-laura-elizabeth-palmer-3

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