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To the Reverend Richard St. John Tyrwhitt
Elderfield, Otterbourne,Winchester.
Oct 1st 1877

MS University of Iowa; MsL/Y56ty

My dear Mr Tyrwhitt,

There is a chapter on Basilica in the printer’s hands just now. I ought to have sent it up for October and I don’t know how I missed laying my hands on it when I was packing up the MS. I ought to have mentioned it when you wrote to me, and now I am terribly afraid I have given you ‘double double toil and trouble’. When the proofs come you will see what amount of repetition there is. Had I not better return you the new chapter to look at with it, I am greatly concerned at any blundering of mine having given you additional troubles.1

Your study of your son reminds me of my Mother saying it was a curious sensation when she began not to know where all my ideas came from

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1The Rev. Richard St. John Tyrwhitt (1827-1895), a follower of Ruskin and art criti, contributed a series of articles on 'The Basilica' to MP, beginning in ns 25 (January 1878) 1-14 and running until ns 30 (July 1880) 1-18.
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/2601/to-the-reverend-richard-st-john-tyrwhitt

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