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To Mary Trebeck
[11 July 1892]

MS Charlotte Mitchell/331

This life is not the Temple but the Gate
Where men secure of entrance watch and wait

Aubrey de Vere

Dear Mrs Trebeck

I am afraid this is too late but I cannot help sending it

yours sincerely

C M Yonge

They are the end of his sonnet in answer to ‘A life worth living[‘]

1With envelope addressed to Mrs Trebeck/ Southwell/ Notts and postmarked Winchester 11 July 1892. Mary Trebeck edited The Blue Birthday Book: Proverbs, Maxims and Quotations for Every Day of the Year (London: Gardner, Darton 1898).

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/3578/to-mary-trebeck

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