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To Marianne Bigg Wither
Otterbourne, Winchester.
Aug 27th 1858

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection, C0171: Box 29. 1

My dear Marianne
“Teneriffe an Astronomer’s Experiment” published by Reeve is the proper title of Piazzi Smith,2 [I] waited till I could [illegible] perfect in it I should think it a book quite worth sending out, very entertaining, and the writing of a sensible man. I return Elizabeth’s book of poetry, which I have been slowly enjoying, it is most beautiful, one upon the scenes of earth coming near heaven is I think my favourite

Your affectionate
C M Yonge

I ought to have thanked for the book long ago only I waited for Teneriffe.

1‘Miss M B Wither’ is written on the back, and a strip of white paper pasted over fold covers some words/letters on first page.
2Charles Piazzi Smith, Tenerife, An Astronomer's Experiment, or, Specialities of a Residence Above the Clouds (London, Reeve 1858).

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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/3118/to-marianne-bigg-wither-4

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