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To Susan (Dabney) Smedes
Elderfield Otterbourne Winchester
Feb 10th 1888

MS Special Collections, University of Virginia Library1

Dear Madam
Your book by some means reached me before your letter, and I have been longing to write and thank some one for it, but I did not know to whom to write, though I thought of Mrs Latimer as my only Baltimore correspondent

I am extremely interested in it – in the life growing perfect as it reached its close, and in the terrible convulsion and break up of the happy home. I shall when I can, make a short extract of it for the Monthly Packet2

With many thanks for what I shall always value and many friends will read your labour of love

yours sincerely
C M Yonge

Do I gather from your address that you are engaged in Mission work among the Indians?

1With envelope addressed to 'Mrs Smedes/ Indian Camp/ Fort Sabulben? /Rosebud Agency /Dakota / U S A' and postmarked Winchester 10 February 1888.
2CMY favourably reviewed Smedes's Memorials of a Southern Planter, a biography of her father which depicted him as a benevolent slave-owner, in 'Conversation on Books' MP (May 1888), 461-2.
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/18751/to-susan-dabney-smedes

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