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July 10th 1857

MS Winchester City Council, Historic Resources Centre LH3800

My dear Mrs Butler
Please to consider this note as coming from Mr and Mrs Keble, as they are very anxious to get this woman’s petition1 signed as universally and numerously as possible before the end of next week, when it should be returned (with a tail of names on the ruled lines, and on further sheets gummed on beyond if necessary) to Mrs Keble. The name of the place to be written at the top of each district, and people’s husband’s or father’s professions after their names. It is supposed it may have an effect as the Woman’s petition about the Wife’s Sister certainly did.

If you think of any other quarters to which to send them, please apply to Mrs Keble for them, as she keeps the store

yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1A bill to allow marriage to a deceased wife’s sister was first presented to the House of Commons in 1850 and finally passed in 1907. The present petition probably related to the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, which simplified the divorce process, and to which Keble was strongly opposed.
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/3104/to-emma-butler

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