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Otterbourne, Winchester.
July 12th 1862

MS Brigham Young University

My dear Miss Peard,

You are a most comfortable correspondent and contributor, and it will be very pleasant to us to have the print of St. Sebastian which your friend has so kindly procured for us.

We shall be wandering for two or three months to come but it will be sure to reach me safely if sent either direct here, or to the care of Messrs Mozley 6 Paternoster Row. Which perhaps will be the best way. I send you in stamps the small amount due for all your kind help last year in the Monthly Paper, and for the paper in the Monthly Packet.

I shall be most thankful if you will take those Books of the Bible for the next years Monthly Paper and hope to send you a specimen when I can write it, but next week is to be spent in London, and though I am thence going to a very quiet parsonage,1 where I hope to do some work, it will not be quiet on St James’s day, which is its Consecration anniversary. I must ask you to send me Mrs Trehawke Kekewich’s2 address once more, as I have somehow lost it – but it is hardly worth while to ask you to write to me till I get to Baldersby and write to you, as I hope to do in a little more than a fortnight. After all I find the amount would be too cumbrous in stamps, so that I must delay a little while to get an order, which will be only in your first Christian name, as the post is so apt to be puzzled by two.

I am longing to see the Belgian martyrdom at the International I have heard so much of it but I fear we shall be over hurried3

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

16th I have been obliged to keep this waiting till I had the opportunity of getting this order, & now I am in such a whirl I can hardly write at all I send this from London.

I find there are only 23 Sundays after Trinity this year, so a chapter on ‘Wisdom’ will not be wanted for this year, though if you have written it, it would come into the intended vol on the types.4

1In Baldersby, Yorkshire, the home of the Rev. R.F.Wilson.
2Charlotte Peard (d.1879), daughter of Captain George Peard R.N., and sister of Frances Mary Peard, married (1849) Trehawke Kekewich (b.1823), of Peamore House, near Exeter.
3CMY may refer to the 'Triomphe de Martyre', a picture of St. Cecilia by William-Adolphe Bouguereau which had a great success at the International Exhibition in London, 1 May-1 November 1862. However the artist was French not Belgian.
4This sentence is inserted at right angles to the address and salutation and may or may not have been written before the first postscript.
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/1868/to-frances-mary-peard-12

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