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To Ann Maria Carter Smith
Otterbourne Winchester.
July 11th 1859

MS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1859/91

My dear Miss Smith,
I am sorry this came just too late to send to you at home as you wished. It was too late to write and hurry the people at Derby to print it, so I could only wait for the chance of its coming in time. The last thing I heard about it was from the writer of the Cheshire Pilgrims2 Frances Dysart is delightful.3 I am glad you are going to have a little breathing time out of London. You see I shall have another proof in a month’s time to send you

yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Envelope addressed to Miss Ann Carter Smith/ Sutton Coldfield/ Warwickshire and postmarked Winchester 11 July 1859 and Birmingham 12 July 1859. It also contains a head and shoulders photograph of CMY in old age.
2Frances Maria Wilbraham (d.1905), the author of The Cheshire Pilgrims, or, Sketches of Crusading Life in the Thirteenth Century (1862), which ran in MP (July 1859-1860)

3Frances Dysart is the heroine of Will No One Do Likewise?

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/3133/to-ann-maria-carter-smith-22

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