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July 11th [1856]

MS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/10

My dear Miss Butler
I was going to return this long ago, but I wanted to hear from Mr Mozley whether he could conveniently print the remaining chapters to the end, and he has vouchsafed me no answer, so I mean to wait long enough to give him time to set his types free of the forthcoming number, and then send the whole with a request to have it done at once. I had been making a great dash at finishing Long long ago in the present number and for that reason had been obliged to put off the Likes, cruel as it was to leave them all tumbled out in the road; but I thought you preferred being put off to being minced fine. 1

You will see that I could not have shortened the Long long ago without leaving it in a state alarming to the weak minds of the Mamma’s2

yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1The last episode of Fanny Caroline Lefroy’s novel Long, Long Ago appeared in MP 12 (August 1856) 106-141.
2The heroine of Long, Long Ago is in love with a headstrong young man she has been forbidden to marry, who tries to persuade her to elope. She does not, and after many years is persuaded by her mother to marry an older and staider man with whom she is happy in a quiet way.
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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/3085/to-anna-butler-12

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