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To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield
June 14th [1886]

MS British Library Add MSS 54921: 149-50:

Dear Mr Craik

Mudie’s books have come at last, after spending ten days on the road. Greville is there. And the Queen’s Journals.1

Shall I return you the latter from the London Library.

I ought to have the Proofs of the Quest of Ulysses. I know I put Lord Balmerino into the wrong rebellion which is as bad as putting Dunfermline on the wrong side of Scotland as I did in Unknown to History.

So much for not verifying!

There is a horrible misprint in the Armourers’ prentices. Alderman Ityllio.

It is in the two complete editions, but not in in [sic] the Magazine. I believe it arose from my trying to change his name in the proof, and not having a revise. I meant it for Hillyard, but I have never yet discovered how to make an H that the printers do not take for It or a z that they do not make into a y2

Yours truly
C M Yonge

After all Mudie has only sent the second Highland Journal so I must keep the first

1These were books she required for work on Victorian Half-Century.
2CMY’s way of writing a Z is often confusing.

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/2834/to-george-lillie-craik-67

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