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Otterbourn
May 13th [1852]

MS Huntington Library: Yonge Letters

Dear Madam,
I send the proof of your very pretty June garland. I am sorry that by some mistake of mine, May 25th was omitted in its right month. I suppose it was from its following Whitsunday. Do not you think that as Trinity Sunday is a moveable feast, it might be better to give that title instead of June 6th to the paper on the Hearts Ease? I suppose that the Dianthus Deltoides ought properly to be considered as a garden flower, but it is said by Withering to grow wild in Scotland, and he gives its English name as Maiden Pink. Should you object to alter the expression that St Norbert was converted? I think that it is better to use that form of speech only for conversions from heathenism.

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

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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/2988/to-elizabeth-roberts-9

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