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To Christabel Rose Coleridge
Elderfield
Jany 4th [1864]

MS Mrs Clare Roels1

My dear Christabel
I hope you have the Barnacle by this time. It was to set off on the 2nd having been detained to have sufficient time for pressing. Thanks for your answers which are the first to come for that set of questions, and so serve as the next egg. I think you must be very sorry to leave St Marks and its beautiful services. I am afraid you cannot hope to equal them any where else, though I suppose Hanwell must be a place where it is quite possible to get up a choir2

your affectionate
Mother Goose

1Black-edged paper.
2Christabel’s father, the Reverend Derwent Coleridge (1800-1883), had just resigned indignantly from his job as head of St. Mark’s College, Chelsea. The services at St. Mark’s and the musical instruction given to trainee teachers helped to bring about the transformation of music teaching in schools and the revival of choral services in the Church of England, described in Benarr Rainbow, The Choral Revival in the Anglican Church (1839-1872) (1970).

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/1924/to-christabel-rose-coleridge-5

One Comment
  1. Ellen Jordan says:
    November 1, 2011 at 5:45 am

    Could you explain why he was indignant?
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