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Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Novr 6th [1878?]

MS Mrs Clare Roels1

My dear Christabel

You must take care about the law of the thing for if Alvar has been subpoenad as a witness Cherry’s appearing would not save him from a terrible scrape.1 It could be only at the examination before a magistrate at first. The Spanish indifference to doing good to one’s neighbour might come out well I wonder whether he ever could come to be good for much I should like to give hopes of the place descending to Jack.

I like Miss Bramstons Snowball Society most particularly it is a capital story (What a malicious blot) Decr 1st is the day of examining for our pupil teachers and senior scholars and everybody is vigorous.

yours affectionately
C M Yonge

The 3 brothers is very pretty.3

1Black-edged paper.
2These are characters in Coleridge's novel An English Squire.
3CMY may perhaps refer here to The Three brothers and Other Tales collected by the Brothers Grimm with illustrations by E.H. Wehnert (London: Routledge 1879), though other explanations are possible.

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/2647/to-christabel-rose-coleridge-97

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