Tags:

To Miss Forrest
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Sept 26th [1868-9?]

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection, CO171: Box 291

My dear Miss Forrest
I am sending off your notice for the November Packet, thank you for it. I must not let you come in a vain search for Edith Simeon, though I should be very glad to see you.

She left me on Friday morning as she is going to help Miss Barter for a few months in the school she is managing at Shipton. The being close to Mrs Henry Barter is the great attraction, and she is really very much better for her stay in Ireland – both in strength and spirits.2 I am so glad that the notice in the Packet was so effective3

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Black-edged paper.
2Kitty Moberly had married the Rev. Henry Barter in September 1863. In the 1871 census they are at Shipton under Wychwood in Oxfordshire, where he was Vicar, and where his sister Catherine Barter (b. 1820/1) is also found, running a small boarding-school with a South African ward, Salome Melango (b.1863/4).
3Probably ‘St Peter’s Home and Sisterhood, Kilburn’, signed FF, an article describing the work of thesisterhood and appealing for donations of books of all kinds for the use of the Home’s patients, MP(September 1869), 303-5, which was followed by a grateful acknowledgement (November 1869) 520. It seems possible that this Miss Forrest may have been Christina Fanny Forrest (1844-1926), daughter of the Chief Constable of Hampshire, and later a campaigner for the state registration of nurses and Lady Superintendent of York County Hospital.
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/2343/to-miss-forrest

One Comment
  1. Ellen Jordan says:
    December 28, 2012 at 1:53 am

    I think all the evidence you have gathered in the notes confirms 1869 as the date. 1868 would place the letter two days before CMY’s mother’s death, yet it is written on the mourning paper she used after that death.
Leave a comment

You must be logged in to post a comment.