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To Mary Goldfinch
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Feb 16th [c.18812]

MS Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin 1

Dear Madam

I am much obliged for the loan of these two books. I have the Queens of England but not the Queens of Scotland, and the little book about Northamptonshire told me just what I wanted3

With many thanks
Yours truly
C M Yonge

1Annotated “From Miss Yonge the Authoress to Mary Goldfinch”.
2Probably written during the composition of Unknown to History: A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland (1882).
3Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England From the Norman Conquest 12 vols (London: Colburn 1840-8); Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses 8 vols (Edinburgh: Blackwood 1850-9).

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/3566/to-mary-goldfinch

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