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To Horatia Katherine Frances Gatty
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
June 7th 1880
My dear Miss Gatty I have read Miss Caillard’s first chapter and I cannot help thinking her work promises to be what you would like for Aunt Judy. I think she would be willing to wait if you have not room to begin immediately Yours sincerely C M Yonge ... continue reading
To Horatia Katharine Frances Gatty
Elderfield Otterbourne Winchester
May 4th [1882?]

My dear Miss Gatty,

The Signora Linda Villari wife to Professor Villari at Florence sent me this pretty little sketch of a real favourite bird. It is too youthful for the Packet, but I think you will like to open a connection with her, as she writes prettily and freshly. I enclose a card she sent with her address. She wrote a very pretty story once for the Packet called the Angel of Viareggio.

I hope you ... continue reading

To Horatia Katherine Frances Gatty
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
June 10th 1885

My dear Miss Gatty

‘A bit of Green’ was only in the number preceding ‘the Blackbird’s Nest’- July 1861. I had been on the like quest for the sake of the few words I have said in a conversation on books in the August number, I should have done so in the July one only that it was another persons conversation into which [it] would not fit

I did not write to you for what can I ... continue reading