MS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1861/5
My dear Miss Smith
I am sure it is due that you should have the reading of this letter and the administration of the £10 as you must know much better how to reach the destitute families than I do, and the donor will I am sure be well pleased to hear it is in the hands of Frances Dysart’s author.1 If you will be so kind as to undertake it, I will write to her by the next mail, and tell her to send me the money. And will you send me such particulars as would answer the question whether £10 would provide one or two families – things are at such different prices here that I have no idea. Is it not a pleasant fruit of Frances’s example
Many thanks for the information about the Clothing Society. I have since got a full and explicit account from Mrs Laurie, the lady of Life in the Factories, which will I think answer all that the lady need enquire with the help of a few notes from the letter of a country clergyman’s daughter. The Clothing Society is an excellent notion. I thought the proofs of On the Banks of the Thorne would have come by this time but they are late this month
yours sincerely
C M Yonge