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To Ann Maria Carter Smith
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Oct 8th [1868]

MS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1868/11

My dear Miss Smith,
Thank you for your kind, warm hearted letter. I know you too know what a great grief is, and how close one clings to the last surviving parent,2 and the sense of being still a child at home. May you long preserve that blessing.

I should be very lonely but that my brother and his wife are only a garden’s length from me, and most kind, and just at present I have a cousin with me, who has always been like a sister to me. I think I shall go into Devonshire with her, and then return to face the solitude

yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Black-edged paper.
2CMY is replying to a letter of condolence on the death of FMY, who died on 28 September 1868. Ann Carter Smith’s father, the Rev. Richard Carter Smith, perpetual curate of St. Paul’s Charlton, had died on on 1 October 1864.
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/2281/to-ann-maria-carter-smith-79

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