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To the Reverend John Frederick Watkinson Bullock
Elderfield
Jan 16th 1894

MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: MS English Letters: e.174 ff 129-30

Dear Mr Bullock,
I send three more translations, but I doubt about using the ‘Noël’ 1

It is a little Calvinistic (strangely enough) and sounds irreverent though not so in the shepherds themselves. Up to Sauvestre’s time – 40 or 30 years ago these really were universally sung, and were popular poems made by poor men- I should think Paradise might come in on All Souls’ day

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1She had translated Breton hymns from Souvestre's Les Derniers Bretons for Bullock's Daily Lections project.

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/3243/to-the-reverend-john-frederick-watkinson-bullock-8

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