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To Anna Butler?
Elderfield
March 14th 1888

MS UCLA: collection 100: box 95

My dear Miss Butler

I am afraid that there would not be good room for your paper till the end of the year—I mean Jany 1889. I agree with you that those old letters are full of deep interest, and such curiously unexpected traits come out in them.

You will see in a note in the next Monthly Packet a very odd thing just disinterred out of some papers of my great-great-great grandfather about a tradition of Becket.1

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1In a note signed by C.M.Y. appended to 'The Canterbury Relics' in MP 3s 15 (April 1888) 368, she quotes from the diary of James Yonge (1647-1721) his seeing a dark line of corn in a field which was supposed to mark a path taken by Thomas à Becket.

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/2877/to-anna-butler-19

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