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To Louisa Catherine Palmer or Mary Anne Palmer
Elderfield Otterbourne, Winchester.2
Feb 26th [1864]

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection, CO171: Box 291

My dear Miss Palmer3
I am ashamed of not having thanked you sooner for the statement C M S which is a great help to me, being very clear though of course very sad. I think Mr Gorst’s book must be soon coming, and then I shall dash into my subject – I was going to say like Captain Dodd at the pirate, for I have just been reading that wonderful chapter of Hard Cash. Have you heard of Miss Bennett lately. I am afraid her eyes are very much affected. She spent a day with us and was obliged to shade them constantly with a screen and I am afraid they have been worse since that

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Black-edged paper.
2Elderfield added by hand to the printed address.
3Louisa Catherine Palmer (d. 1868) and Mary Anne Palmer (d. 1884) were sisters -in-law of the Rev. Charles Abraham, first bishop of Wellington, New Zealand. They may have supplied CMY with tales of missionary heroism for use in A Book of Golden Deeds.
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/1941/to-louisa-catherine-palmer-or-mary-anne-palmer

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