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To Caroline Birley?
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Oct 12th 1881

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection

Dear Miss Birley

Many thanks for your two pretty books, I was a little startled at the [???] with which they afflicted you in ‘Yes and no’- but I hope that gentleman’s white lion[?] explains it sufficiently to be a fatherly embrace

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Perhaps Caroline Birley, whose story A Heap of Stones (London: SPCK 1881) had been published in MP (December 1880), 158-184, and who was also the author of We are Seven: A Tale for Children, with illustrations by T. Pym (London: Wells, Gardner 1880). CMY seems to have been concerned about an illustration.

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/2736/to-miss-birley

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