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To Sarah Anne Mercier
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
June 8th [1870]

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection, CO171: Box 29

My dear Mrs Mercier

Here is that charming little story at last.

One thing might I ask? Could not poor Maria’s one note of admiration be changed from Lor! I have rather the feeling that it is an abridgement of a more sacred word.1

Did you mean Marian to blunder about feeding cows and milking chickens – ? Also did you send me a capital paper about fashion?

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1‘Hints on Reading’ MP (April 1871), 418, recommends ‘Mr. Warne’s last Victoria Packet, where . . . Mrs.Filby’s Maria rises far above the general order of such little books’. However, since this letter evidently encloses a proof for correction, it presumably dates from the previous year. Several series of ‘Warne’s Victoria Toy Books: A Packet of Twelve Nursery Stories’ were published. Since they appeared under CMY's editorship and several were anonymous, they are sometimes incorrectly catalogued as her work.

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/2694/to-anne-mercier

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