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To George Lillie Craik
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.

MS British Library: Add. MSS 61896 182-3

My dear Mr Craik,

I shall be staying at the Palace at Salisbury1  from Monday till Thursday of Easter Week, Could I meet you there and go round the Cathedral with you –Said Cathedral is in a state of restoration from the mischief that Wyatt did it and so not in present perfection2 – I make another visit3 afterwards and do not come home till Saturday, so unless I can meet you at Salisbury I am afraid I shall miss you, which I should be very sorry to do –

Sunshiny east(?) which is at least more becoming than snow storms, and the primroses banks are not at all the worse for it

Yours sincerely

CM Yonge

1 This was the home of Bishop Moberly and his family.
2James Wyatt had made extensive demediaevalizing restorations to Salisbury Cathedral in 1789-92.
3 She went on to stay with Countess Nelson at Landford House, Romsey.
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/19462/to-george-lillie-craik-78

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