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To Francis Turner Palgrave
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
May 12 1880

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection, Princeton: C0171: Box 29

My dear Mr Palgrave

You will think there is no end to the books I am doing, but the National Society has set me on making a historical Reader for schools interspersed – after Reader fashion with poems. May I have an extract from your verses about Charles’s flight. They are so much easier than Wordsworth’s sonnet- and may I borrow one or two more from that same book?1 The Montfort one, I think but I am not sure of any other.2

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1The reading of the words ‘Charles’s flight’ is conjectural, but CMY included Palgrave’s ‘The Fugitive King’. about the flight of Charles I after the battle of Naseby in 1645, in English History Reading Books IV. The reference to Wordsworth is presumably to Ecclesiastical Sonnets 46, ‘Troubles of Charles the First’.
2‘A Ballad of Evesham’, also from Palgrave's The Visions of England (1880), was included in English History Reading Books III.

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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/2708/to-francis-turner-palgrave

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