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Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Novr 13 th [1872]

MS Mrs Clare Roels

My dear Christabel
York and Lancaster Rose has gone- one half to school- and the other has grown too busy, so it resigns, and I have accepted a

Miss Alice Poole1
Uffington
Farrington

She is sister to a governess I like very much –

Hanbury Mills was an immense pleasure to Gertrude. She and Frances have both bought one. I think Linda is true, but as you say, it was not possible to bring her out more. I confess I had rather not have married Frank I think he got restless and picked his moustaches, and frightened her. I doubt too whether Patty would have come off with such flying colours with old Mr Weatherby

your affectionate
Mother Goose

The lady with a long nose will end in the summer. Then we will have your Face if it is not too ghastly for a serial

1'York and Lancaster Rose' was the sobriquet of two sisters, members of the Gosling Society. Their replacement, Alice F. S. Poole (b. Newland, Gloucestershire 1849/50), was living at Uffington with her mother Catherine Poole (b. 1807/8); she later became a governess and at the time of the 1881 census was living in Camberwell with her sister Harriet Poole (b. Mansfield, Nottingham 1843/4), also a governess. The latter is probably the Miss Poole to whom there are several other references.

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/2461/to-christabel-rose-coleridge-76

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