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To the Reverend John Frewen Moor
Elderfield
Jany 22nd [1864]

MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: MS English Letters: e 86.1

My dear Mr Moor
The prizes2 I should like to propose would be –
First Shew
Best copy book by a school boy
Knife

by a school girl
Writing case

Second
25 sorts of wildflowers rightly labelled with English names by a school child
Book on Flowers

Best set of samples of needle work by a school girl – consisting of
hemming
sewing
stitching
felling
marking
darning
5s
2nd Best — 1s

I dont think it any use to propose the like in the autumn because there are few flowers, and work is disorganized by harvest.

What fun it would be if there was a prize for the fattest tame rabbit, and how the boys would like it

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Black-edged paper. Envelope addressed to “The Revd/ J F Moor/Ampfield/Romsey. Postmarked Winchester Jan 23/64.
2This letter and the letter to Moor dated 26 January 1864 suggest that CMY and her mother were offering prizes to local National School pupils to be presented some time later in the year. Ampfield, like Otterbourne, was still under Keble’s general supervision, and it is not clear whether these prizes were solely for Ampfield children or whether they were being invited to take part in a wider competition involving other schools within the parish.

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/1929/to-the-reverend-john-frewen-moor-17

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