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To Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
March 3d 1871

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection

My dear Miss Sewell,
Would you mind my changing the time of your proposed session to the later day you had fixed. I am asked to spend a day or two at Mr Portal’s to meet the Bishop on the 10th, and that is a thing I should like so much to do that I venture to ask you to change the day. 1 The week after I go to Miss Dyson.

I think you said at first Friday the 21st. My only objection to a Friday is that I want to begin a class of freshly confirmed girls on Friday evenings (the confirmation is on the 1st and I think if I break it up so soon after the first start it will never come to good – but that does not signify as an objection.

Would the Monday after suit you as well? I hope I an not putting out your plans very much

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Melville Portal (1819-1904), a local landowner.

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/2401/to-elizabeth-missing-sewell-16

One Comment
  1. Ellen Jordan says:
    January 13, 2013 at 5:28 am

    I have possibly done some mistranscription here. If any reader is ever in Princeton could s/he check if the bracket before “the confirmation” is ever closed, and whether “I an not putting” should be “I am not putting”?
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