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To Mary Ann Moberly
Jan. 1, 1872.

MS location unknown. This fragment printed in Dulce Domum, 245-6.

[[To Mary Ann Moberly]

There is a full detail of all that is known in a letter from Mr. Brooke in the new number of Mission Life . . . both bring out more of the pain and grief than the first, which rests on one like a vision of the crystal sea and the palm.1 But the sweet smile bears one on through it all. I go to Lichfield on Monday; Mrs. Selwyn says that her Bishop is overflowing with recollections of the early days of the mission. . . . Some islands have been quite depopulated by those wretches. I believe Satan always does stir up something dreadful when his kingdom is being taken from him, but when he can only make martyrs it is well. . .

1CMY refers to the reports of the death of the Rt. Rev. John Coleridge Patteson, and to her visit to Lichfield to research the biography she was writing. The Bishop of Lichfield, George Augustus Selwyn, had formerly been Bishop of New Zealand and had appointed Patteson Missionary Bishop of Melanesia.
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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/2432/to-mary-ann-moberly-6-3

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