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To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Jany 23d 1883

MS British Library Add MSS 54921: 121-2:

Dear Mr Craik

Many thanks for the payment. The knowledge that the amount for Unknown to History is coming is quite sufficient for me at present. I have been kept waiting about the Christian Names by Mr H Jenner of the British Museum who promised to set me right about the Keltic mythology but I suspect has forgotten all about it.1 I am desiring him to let me have it again, and let me do my best with it. I think it is compressible into a volume. I took out an immense quantity of the First.

Clark made no sign though no doubt there was a stamp with his name. I was surprised at the uniform obliteration of my capitals which I thought I had taught Clay to observe. I observe printers have an inveterate hatred to capitals, even when they have only to copy type. I suppose it gives them more trouble – or they lay snares for corrections2

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1The Cornish scholar Henry Jenner (1848-1934), was an assistant in the MS department of the British Museum, the son of Bishop Jenner and the nephew of Marion Finlaison.
2CMY waged constant war with printers. R & R. Clark of Edinburgh, and not Richard Clay and Sons, were the printers of the first edition of Stray Pearls; evidently CMY had not observed this in correcting the proofs.

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/2768/to-george-lillie-craik-57

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