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Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.’
Febry 12th 1876

MS fragment Plymouth and West Devon Area Record Office Acc No 308: 12-2-76

My dear Mary,

So the dear old Sir John Coleridge is gone, except Aunt Jane1, I suppose [paper torn off]

[the reverse reads]

the most conscientious of natures, and all throughout guarded and raised by his deep religiousness I always think the tender

1Sir John Taylor Coleridge had died on 11 February. The sentence probably went to say that now Mary's father had only his sister Jane Harris surviving among his contemporaries.
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/2541/to-mary-yonge-38

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