MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection C0171: Box 29¹

Dear Miss Medhurst
Thank you for your kindness to Emmeline, she is an affectionate girl and has a refinement about her that makes her pleasant to have to do with. Her brother with whom she lives was one of the College choristers at Winchester and had a good education there, so I hope she is in good hands, but a little notice and sympathy will be a great help in the great plunge it must be from daily services to the business of life. I wanted her to have been a school mistress, but though she was a good teacher she did not like it, and it is too much a profession to be taken up experimentally now. The inspector too advised me not, thinking her too delicate, so Sunday school teaching might be too great a strain, otherwise she would be valuable for it. She will like to tell you about Hursley which she knows well. The family are so consumptive that I am always prepared to have her break down

With many thanks
Yours truly
C M Yonge