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To James Sutherland Cotton
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Oct 19th 1883

MS UCLA: collection 100: box 951

Sir,

Allow me to thank you for your notice of my recent volume of ‘Cameos of English history.’ But let me observe that Freitag derives the word sometimes spelt Lanzknechts as ‘Landsknechts’—free men of the country.

Miss Strickland, in her Life of Anne of Denmark, states that, though Oslo as Upslo afterwards had a Cathedral and was known as Christiana, both James’s letters, and the contemporary chroniclers describe the place as a small dreary village. I have no original authority at hand, but Miss Strickland evidently looked into the matter; and as there was another performance of the ceremony at Kronenberg, it is plain that Oslo could not then have been considered to possess the National Cathedral.

The conversations between Ballard and his fellows are not from my imagination but from the evidence laid before Elizabeth, and whether true or not, are certainly historical.

I remain
Yours &c
C M Yonge

1The words ‘life’ in ‘Life of Anne of Denmark’ and ‘but’ in ‘But let me observe’ are lowercased but have the first letter double-underscored as if to uppercase them—this and other marks may have been done by the printer if the letter was published in the correspondence columns of the periodical. The letter is endorsed ‘Corresp./’ ‘Cameos of English History’ ’
2James Sutherland Cotton (1847-1918) was the editor of the Academy, where this letter appeared (27 October 1883), 283, in response to a review (13 October 1883), 244, of CMY's Cameos from English History V: England and Spain, criticizing her spelling and introduction of anecdotes.


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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/2781/to-james-sutherland-cotton

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