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My dear Lady Salisbury I am venturing to ask if you would be so good as to present my niece Mrs Cromie at the coming drawing room. Her husband Captain Cromie has just been promoted from Morocco to Algeciras, and they are in England during the transit. It would of course be much more convenient to her to be presented now that she is at home than to have to come on purpose.
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My dear Lady Salisbury,
It is very kind in you to ask me, but I have again to say that it is a time when I am engaged. I hope have [sic] Fanny Patteson with me that week, for a little while in her wanderings. I am afraid the life that those two sisters lead has become very sad.
with many thanks and regrets yours sincerely C M Yonge
... continue readingMy dear Lady Salisbury
When I was at Oxford in the spring I promised Canon Bright to ask you whether it was true that some papers had been found at Hatfield which threw some light on the genuineness of the Casket Letters of Queen Mary. I thought I would wait to write to you till the whirl of summer occupation had a little gone by, but one might as well wait for a river to run ... continue reading