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To the Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce
Otterbourne
Decr 30th [1867]

MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: MSS. Wilberforce c. 16 ff64-51

My Lord,
Allow me to express my gratitude for the kindness of your invitation and of the arrangement for the journey. I must however beg to decline it until another year when I hope I may have the pleasure of making your daughter’s acquaintance under more cheerful circumstances.

I cannot at present feel inclined to enter on a large party, nor to leave my mother, and I should be much obliged if you would allow me to consider the visit as deferred until some future time.2

With many thanks for your kindness
Yours very respectfully
Charlotte M Yonge

1Black-edged paper.
2CMY had been in Devon in October, returning on 12 November 1867. This excuse to Bishop Wilberforce may mark the beginning of her mother’s decline.

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/2225/to-the-right-reverend-samuel-wilberforce

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