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To the Reverend John Frederick Watkinson Bullock
Elderfield
Oct 20th [1894]

MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: MS English Letters: e.174 ff 1

Dear Mr Bullock,
I will try what I can do for Stephen Langton next week – if the Diocesan Synod leaves time.1

I think it would be wiser to keep clear of Pope Pius V.2 There are a good many R Cs that I should much rather deal with

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Stephen Langton (c.1150-1228), archbishop of Canterbury. CMY was evidently proposing to write his biography for the series 'Biographies of Eminent Anglicans', intended for, but never published in, Bullock's Daily Lections.
2Pius V (1504-1572), pope from 1566, canonized in 1712. CMY may have objected to his excommunication of Elizabeth I or to his support for the Spanish Inquisition. The phrase 'would be wiser' suggests also that she remembered the Tractarians' early public relations disasters precipitated by the publication of Romanizing books.

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/3274/to-the-reverend-john-frederick-watkinson-bullock-21

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