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To Ann Maria Carter Smith
Otterbourn
April 2nd [1856]

MS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1856/1

Madam,
I delayed to thank you for your M S, till I had had time to read it. It is a very well told story, and I shall have great pleasure in inserting it in an early number of the ensuing volume, either in July or August. The only criticism I should make, is that the boys are rather too old, even at that date, for a schoolroom tea, especially Johnnie, if he had already been to Otaheite.

Allow me to add that Lucy and Christian have been universally liked, and I have been many times asked whether there were any foundation of truth for the story1

With many thanks
yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Lucy and Christian Wainwright, a story by Ann Carter Smith which appeared in MP 11 (February 1856) 111-37, and was subsequently published in Lucy and Christian Wainwright and Other Tales (1863). The manuscript referred to is presumably that of Thorns and Roses in a Homely Life, published in MP 12 (December 1856), 414-64.

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/3081/to-ann-maria-carter-smith-4

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