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[November 1868]

MS location unknown. This fragment printed in Dulce Domum, 207-8.

Many many thanks for your most kind letter, and for telling me of the happy prospect before Dora1 . . . I have asked Mrs. Wilson to send on to you a letter of Bishop Patteson’s, which I think you will feel refreshed by reading; please send it on to Miss Anne Mackenzie. You are so very kind, and it would be very delightful to make one in the migration; but I have only seen Miss Dyson for a day since her sorrow, and not at all since mine,2 and the meeting at Testwood has become such an institution that I could not fail in it, so I must wait until you are at Brighstone again, and I have always had a wish to see that in spring. I have just returned from Lady Seaton’s It is a house of shadows and memories to me.

1Dora Frances Moberly’s had become engaged to the Rev. Charles Martin, whom she married 14 September 1869.
2Mary Anne Dyson's sister-in-law Elizabeth Dyson (with whom she had lived at Crookham since her brother’s death) had died in the first quarter of 1868, and CMY's mother had died on 28 September 1868.

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/2293/to-mary-anne-moberly-5

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