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To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
March 19th 1878

MS British Library Add MSS 54921: 55-561

Dear Mr Craik

I send 4 chapters of the Story of the Moors I will send some more as soon as I have touched it up. I think you may reckon on 30 chapters – 22 are written and bring me to Peter the cruel, but the actual siege of Granada will take up a good deal of room

About the little French history, I went over and added to the sheets as far as I had them but I had not kept the duplicates of all. I wrote to ask for the next, but no notice was ever taken of my request and I concluded that the work was a failure, like the other.2 I ought to have kept the duplicates, but one sometimes feels half smothered in old proofs.

I send the two corrections, I am not quite sure whether that for Bp Patteson’s life should go in Vol II p 388 – just after Captain Markham’s visit or as a sort of note – at the end of all.

I incline to the first, not liking to spoil the present conclusion

Yours truly
C M Yonge

Of course I shall be glad to finish up the French primer

1Black-edged paper.
2CMY refers to the smaller of the two books called History of France which she wrote for Macmillan. It appeared in the 'Historical Primers' series in 1878. The other, which appeared in the 'Historical Course for Schools' series edited by E. A. Freeman, had been so fiercely criticized by him that she had had to revise it heavily, and it did not appear until 1879.
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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/2622/to-george-lillie-craik-37

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