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To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
June 1st 1877

MS NLS 3553/70

Dear Mr Craik

Thank you for seeing to the books. The thanks for them from Wantage arrived the day before yesterday, but I could not write before as I only came home from Oxfordshire and am paying the price of my four days holiday by having more letters to answer than I can manage1

yours truly
C M Yonge

Did I say how charmed I was with your bright little sister in law?2

1She had arranged for a set of her novels to be sent to the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, Wantage, for transmission to their convent in Bombay.
2Perhaps Fanny Esther Duffield (1849-1923) who married (1873) Craik's younger brother Henry Craik (1846-1927), an examiner in the Education Department.
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/2583/to-george-lillie-craik-25

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