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To Miss Durton
Elderfield Otterbourne Winchester
April 3d 1889

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection

Dear Miss Durton

Your Good Friday has been a long time on its way, owing to the misdirection, but I have it now, and I wish I could have got it into the Monthly Packet for Easter, though even if it had come direct it would not have been in time for April.

I am very glad to hear more of Ottavia’s family and will insert this when I can.1 Perhaps another time you had better write direct to me. My paper is so thick that I will only put in this one half sheet

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1Both 'Ottavia' MP 3s 14 (July 1887), 87-96, and 'A Good Friday Procession at Grassina' MP 3s 19 (April 1890) 371-6, appeared under the name 'E.Vere'. They purport to be real life accounts of Italian peasantry, and the author perhaps lived in Italy.

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/2904/to-miss-durton

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