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I enclose £1.1 for the use of the poem on the Fireside.1 I believe Mr Ward thought he had enclosed your note, and forgot to do so, and therefore I could not but be mortified at the refusal
yours truly
C M Yonge
1‘Pictures in the Fire’ by Adelaide Procter (1825-1864), whose hugely popular poetry was published by Bell. The cheque for a guinea to G. Bell was debited on 16 April. CMY was including the poem in an anthology published by Ward: Aunt Charlotte's Evenings at Home with the Poets (1881).
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/2704/to-george-bell-sons
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