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To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Decr 26th 1877

MS British Library Add MSS 54921: 44-451

Dear Mr Craik

About the name of the Spanish book which certainly is rather suggestive of the uncomplimentary riddle ‘What is the difference between Truth and Fiction? History and Her story My book is really both – a bit of real history, and then a collection of the wonderful stories and ballads about it.

I do not know any book that does combine them both, and I want to mark that this does.

I shall send the first half dozen chapters which are done.

I am writing to Mr Murray2

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1Black-edged paper.
2She wanted Murray's permission to use some of Lockhart's Ancient Spanish Ballads in her The Story of the Christians and the Moors in Spain.
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/2615/to-george-lillie-craik-33

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