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To Edith Sophia Jacob
Elderfield
July 10th [1881]

MS Charlotte Mitchell.

My dear Edith

Would this be the kind of thing?1  I suspect it is too long.  It is a beginning I once made and you may as well look at it.  I also send a paper on the study of the Bible, which an American Sunday School Society once made me write and which might serve you some day perhaps.

You see this is a mere beginning, hardly getting beyond the Acts.  Canon Bright wanted me to do a Church history, and I got so far and then quailed – wanting the lash of a serial to keep me up to it.

We seem to be getting on well under the new dynasty, but it has been a strange thing that in one spring the school should lose Vicar, master and pupil teacher2

your affectionate

CMYonge

I was going to cut out the article but on second thoughts I send the whole paper as there are curious things in it

 

1 CMY has evidently been asked for a contribution to The Watchword, the periodical edited by Edith Jacob which circulated among the Society of Watchers and Workers. She certainly contributed a series 'Militant Here on Earth' about the early history of the church which deals with the travels of St. Paul and might be the article referred to.
2 The Rev. Walter Elgie, Vicar of Otterbourne, died in February 1881 and was succeeded by the Rev. Walter Brock. A week after his arrival the schoolmaster, Walter Fisher, also died.
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/19998/to-edith-sophia-jacob-22

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