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To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield Otterbourne
Feb 1st 1893

MS British Library Add MSS 54921: 193-4

Dear Mr Craik
I return the receipt with many thanks.

I quite agree to your decision about the Rubies of St Lo not being attached to Grisly Grisell as the only connection between them is that Henry VI is mentioned in each.

I could add a chapter at the end to Grisly Grisell, as I was afraid to wind up all the characters lest it should be too long, but it may perhaps be better to finish where it does on the principle of not ‘rhyming to that dull elf’1

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1Walter Scott, Marmion (1808) 6, 618-9: ‘I do not rhyme to that dull elf,/ Who cannot image to himself . . ‘

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/3214/to-george-lillie-craik-12

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