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Elderfield Otterbourne
April 11th 1899

MS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/31

My dear Mrs Butler
At last I can send you the small amount for your Snow Queen She was a long time waiting before I could get her in, but she looks very pretty in the number.

I had the pleasure of seeing Grace Guinness last month, and hearing of my dear Lizzie, who is really a wonder, I wish Emma was as well!1

yours sincerely
C M Yonge

Your husband will be sorry to hear that the beautiful Common is being eaten up with houses, and there is talk of a Union Workhouse in the prettiest part.

1Grace (Butler) Guinness and Emma (Butler) Knight were her correspondent’s sisters-in-law; Elizabeth Barnett was their aunt.

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/3403/to-mary-caroline-butler

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