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To Christabel Rose Coleridge
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
June 6 th [1882]

MS Mrs Clare Roels1

My dear Christabel

The elder sister may be a good modification and pray do you – or FMP invent a love story to work in.1

No Robber appears so do pray write him, also Geo III and the beggar. I have done a White Ship. There ought I fancy to be about 30, and I have 28 in my eye or written out ie if I take two Whittingtons.

What do you think of the baby Pretender in his nurses’ arms under the Church wall in his mother’s flight?

In haste
your affectionate
C M Yonge

I got Mrs Argles (Dr Davys’ daughter) to tell me over again the story of the Pedigree. It is all right

1Endorsed in another hand '1882'.
2i.e., to The Miz Maze the novel they were writing in collaboration. The rest of the letter seems to relate to a different project, however.



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/2750/to-christabel-rose-coleridge-106

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