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To Horatia Katharine Frances Gatty
Elderfield Otterbourne Winchester
May 4th [1882?]2

UCLA: collection 100: box 951

My dear Miss Gatty,

The Signora Linda Villari wife to Professor Villari at Florence sent me this pretty little sketch of a real favourite bird. It is too youthful for the Packet, but I think you will like to open a connection with her, as she writes prettily and freshly. I enclose a card she sent with her address. She wrote a very pretty story once for the Packet called the Angel of Viareggio.

I hope you can give a tolerable account of Mrs Ewing. We were greatly charmed with Laetus Sorte Meâ3

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

On second thought I will keep the card as if rejected you had better return Dinderino to me

1Endorsed in another hand ' Signora Linda Villari/ 93r Via Tinti/ Florence/ “Dinderino”'
2‘The Angel of Viareggio’ appeared in MP (January-June 1880) and ‘Laetus Sorte Mea’ in Aunt Judy’s Magazine in 1882. It was published as The Story of a Short Life (1882). The letter must antedate the death of Juliana Ewing in May 1885.




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/2747/to-horatia-katharine-frances-gatty-2

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