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Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
March 31st 1817 [1871]

MS UCLA: collection 100: box 95

My dear Miss Sewell,

Could you be so kind as first to send on a card the name of anyone to write to at Freshwater about lodgings for a fortnight or so, or if that great Alum bay hotel is thought well of.1 Mrs Elgie2 wants a little airing after her winter of illness, and I fancy Bonchurch would be too relaxing for her, but if there are any lodgings anywhere you specially recommend it would be a kindness to mention them, and the sort of rate of price.

It is only Mr and Mrs Elgie, not the children. If you are gone from home, perhaps one of your sisters would be so kind as to set down particulars.

Yours sincerely,

C M Yonge

1Perhaps the Royal Needles Hotel, Alum Bay, from which Marconi sent the first wireless transmission in 1897.
2Catharine Elgie, wife of the curate of Otterbourne.

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/2403/to-elizabeth-missing-sewell

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