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Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Febry 14th [1870s?]

MS Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin

My dear Cousin Mary1,

I am glad you like my books. I think there are one or two more that you have not seen, the Stokesley Secret which is about the size of Countess Kate, and is most of it fun, Kenneth, which is about a boy and girl in the Retreat from Moscow, and some short stories for poor children, called Langley School, Friarswood Post office, Leonard the Lion heart and Ben Sylvester’s Word

your affectionate cousin
C M Yonge

1The letter is obviously addressed to a child, and is catalogued in the Coleridge collection at Texas. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907) is suggested as a possibility. None of the books mentioned was published later than 1862.

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/3516/to-mary-elizabeth-coleridge

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