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Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
March 7th [1864]

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection, C0171: Box 29: Author Files Wood-Yonge:

My dear Kittiwake
I am glad you are meditating a flight to us, but will you let it be on Monday the 14th this day week.1 I want the skies to clear up a little, as I hope you will allow time enough for a walk to see our daffodil copse of which we are rather proud, and which will gain by the week’s delay.

Do not be deceived into turning into the wrong house for my brother’s comes before ours and looks more imposing, but make it clear that we are Mrs and not Mr Yonge. Our kind regards to Mrs Johns, and thanks to her for bringing you

Your faithful
Mother Goose

1A day visit was possible because Kittiwake and her mother lived in Winchester where her father, the Rev. Charles Alexander Johns (1811-1874), ran a prep school.

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/1942/to-ann-catherine-johns

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