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To the Reverend James Duncan
June 9th 1882

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection1

Dear Mr Duncan

I send you a first instalment of the first book of Historical poetry,2 I think there are about 30 of such pieces as these, containing nothing too difficult for a child of nine or eight years old. I suppose that will be enough for the first book, as it would be better to have it small and cheap enough for being learnt at home.

I have chosen only what are simple in language and ideas. Some are written on purpose, and some I have altered.

Those for the second set are much easier to find, and I think there will be more of them, but I suppose that 40 should be about the number

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1Endorsed: ‘Miss Yonge/ sends/ 1st Instalment/of/Ballad Book/Part I/13/6/82’.
2Duncan was the secretary of the National Society, the publishers of Historical Ballads.

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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/2753/to-mr-duncan

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