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To Janetta Sewell
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
[1871?]

MS fragment UCLA: collection 100: box 951

My dear Miss Sewell2

I have been from home or I would have answered sooner. I send you a pound for the poor woman—which I hope may help her on a little while.

Pray thank the Warden greatly for his very kind messages through Mr Wither. If my friend Miss Peard3 can come, I am sure you will like her. She is an excellent singer among other perfections, and full of life and brightness. I think you will like her book One Year. Her home is Torquay, I believe the family is Cornish and the Garibaldi man is her uncle. 4 Did you ever try how many words can be made out of the letters of Triangle? and do you know the

[part of letter missing]

I am hoping soon to see your sister
Yours very sincerely
C M Yonge

1Black-edged paper.
2Name partly erased.
3Name partly erased.
4John Whitehead Peard (1811-1880), known as 'Garibaldi's Englishman', who had fought with Garibaldi in Italy, was Peard’s uncle and lived in Cornwall.

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/2430/to-janetta-sewell

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