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To Walter Besant
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
March 18th 1879

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection C0171: Box 29

Dear Sir

I am obliged by your letter, but the terms are much below what I am generally in the habit of receiving e.g. I have two pence royalty on that little Primer of French history which sells for a shilling

Neither should I wish much to under take Sir Philip Sidney, feeling the subject rather hackneyed1

I remain
Yours truly
C M Yonge

1This letter probably relates to Besant's editorship (with W. J. Brodribb) of The New Plutarch Series, 'Lives of those who have made the history of the world', published by Ward.

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/2666/to-walter-besant-2

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