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Otterbourn
May 29th [1857?]1

MS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1858/ 1

Dear Miss Smith
I am going to ask you in my private capacity to do me a kindness. My brother is just setting out on an expedition to Norway, and we are ignorant whether we can write to him there in the ordinary manner for the Continent. I mean whether poste restante is the usual form, or if there is any other mode more congenial to the north, and also whether we should spell Drontheim Trondheim.

I trust you will not think me troublesome in asking these particulars which a /former\ resident can so much better be depended for answering correctly than any post office. I should like to know whether you found that your letters were fairly regular. I see they profess to have a daily post.

yours very truly
C M Yonge

1This letter is placed here since it appears to antedate JBY’s first visit to Norway, and he is known to have been there in June 1857. The earliest letter in which CMY wrote ‘Dear Miss Smith’ rather than ‘Dear Madam’ seems to be that dated 4 February 1857.
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/3099/to-ann-maria-carter-smith-10

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