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Elderfield
Feb 11th [1892]

MS UCLA: collection 100: box 951

My dear C C
You may as well see this remonstrance of one of the old fashioned goody souls Mrs Crocker her name seems to be. She goes on afterwards about ‘Amethyst’— and I won’t send that, for it is all misunderstanding. I wrote a defence of Cherry and Maisie saying that she was in a process of growth, and I also explained the scope of Amethyst and that you are not a dangerous person, but I think we must try to keep the religious element more prominent and that Mr Innes should know that in gaining the young we may be losing the sobersided goody variety—2 It is the girls become the aunts.

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1Black-edged paper.
2Cherry is the hero of Coleridge's novel An English Squire (1881). Her novel Amethyst: The Story of a Beauty (1891), was favourably reviewed by Mary Bramston in MP (December 1891) 706.
3Innes wanted the MP to be more modern and popular, and instituted innovations which alarmed CMY.
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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/3190/to-christabel-rose-coleridge-29

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