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Elderfield
June 9th [1886]

MS British Library Add MSS 54921: 147-8

Dear Mr Craik

The printer can judge better than I but I do not think there is enough of the Quest of Ulysses to make more than such a volume as the Little Duke, so I think it had better belong to that Series.

Thank you for Lord Albemarles’ memoirs. I was waiting to do so till I saw what Mudie sent me, and his box is either delayed or lost, as I have just discovered.

I will not close this letter till I hear the result of the enquiry I have sent to make at the Parcels’ Office. If I do not get the books today, I think I must ask you to let me have the Queens Journals the Greville Memoirs Princess Alice, and Lady Blomfield, in all of which I know there are characteristic bits.1 I have just down the year of revolutions, but I cannot finish off the beginning without more authorities.

The Annals are very useful. Unluckily this copy has Sheet M twice over, and no sheet N but I do not think there is anything very important in the missing one2

Yours truly
C M Yonge

Perhaps I ought to see Madame Bunsen’s memoirs

No books come – so if you would kindly get them for me

1These books were all wanted for CMY's work on Victorian Half-Century.
2Craik had presumably provided her with the most recent (1880) edition of Joseph Irving, The Annals of our Time.

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/2833/to-george-lillie-craik-66

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