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To Christabel Rose Coleridge
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Jany 23d [1877]

MS Mrs Clare Roels1

My dear Christabel

I should like of all things to have the dear Fernando, but alas! I don’t see a scrap of room for him before Christmas2 Orina will last till the summer Our Young ladies till Christmas, Magnum Bonum 2 years – (I fear) Then Miss R N Carey begins a long story in July, and I can’t see a chink to put any thing in till Our Young Ladies are done, & I suppose you cannot wait.

yours affectionately
C M Yonge

1Endorsed 'NB post mark has Ja 29 at Winchester 1877'.
2Coleridge's novel The Constant Prince was about Prince Fernando of Portugal (1402-1443) and was eventually serialized in MP (January-June 1878. The other fictions which were in its way were Harriet Romanoff, 'Orina', Euphemia Bussell, 'Our Young Ladies', CMY's own Magnum Bonum and Rosa Nouchette Carey, Heriot's Choice.

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/2568/to-christabel-rose-coleridge-84

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