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To Arthur Donald Innes
Elderfield
March 6th 1890

MS Girton College Cambridge, Yonge IV 18

Dear Mr Innes,
I hope there are still some Castle builders left for a lady in Portugal wrote a few days ago to ask me if it was still to be had, and I answered that it was.1 I suppose the Modern Landmarks are put out by later books.2

I am concerned about a long series of scientific papers on the physical structure of the Earth. I accepted them some time ago from Miss Gaye and spoke of beginning in July 1890.3 Then came this great effort to make the Packet more popular, and I do not know what to do about it. At that time people were crying out that there ought to be more improving papers and fewer stories! I do not know if it would be best to put in the papers not as a series but individually.

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1The Castle Builders (London: Mozley 1854) had been reprinted in 1885.
2CMY had published Landmarks of History: Modern History from the Reformation to the Fall of Napoleon (1857; 6th edition, London: Smith 1882) and Landmarks of Recent History, 1770-1883 (London: Smith 1883), either or perhaps even both of which may be referred to here.
3Selina Gaye does not seem to have published any such articles in MP.

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/3155/to-arthur-donald-innes-6

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