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To Anne Elizabeth Mary Anderson Morshead?
Aug 28th [1880s?]

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection C0171: Box 291

My dear Mary

I don’t think I would venture. I think you would probably be left in the lurch in some way or other and the name is not known enough to inspire any confidence.2

I think you might find some one who would take the risk which would be much better for you. I am making my way home from Devonshire where I have been first with Mary Yonge and then with Mary Coleridge, and I hope to get back on Saturday.

I wish you had said how Lottie is

Your affectionate cousin
C M Yonge

1Watermarked 1877.
2Mary Anderson Morshead was author or editor of several books, and this probably refers to her attempts to find a publisher, possibly for the first of them, Chips from the Royal Image: Being Fragments of Eikon Basilike (London: Masters 1887), to which CMY contributed her name as editor. (Anderson Morshead had been a fanatical supporter of Charles I since she was a teenager.) But equally the letter might be to another person or refer to another book. Another possible correspondent is Mary Isabel Yonge, the sister of 'Lottie' Yonge.

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/2931/to-anne-elizabeth-mary-anderson-morshead-7

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