MS Plymouth and West Devon Area Record Office Acc No 308: 7-8-76
My dear Mary
Many thanks for this letter.1 I suppose the congestion is the great danger now, but youth does so much that I cannot help still hoping and with all the suffering it is not so sad as poor Mr Chamberlayne’s state, for this creeping paralysis has now mastered both arms, so that he can not even point to letters and spell words but he takes food, and his pulse is stronger, and they say he may live two or three months.
It is Sir William’s eldest grandson who is the Jesuit. Only his eldest son became a Romanist, and married an Irish RC, who is a very good religious woman and has brought up all her children very well but of course in her own Church.2 The second son (hers I mean) is in the army Of Sir William’s own sons poor George as you know died after 11 years of this same creeping paralysis his widow is a great friend of Gertrude’s and I hope we shall have her here in the spring. Gilbert has a living in Lincolnshire and has turned out very hardworking & very High Church. Charles is a soldier. Evelyn was presented to Sparsholt, a village bordering on Hursley & Winchester last year, & is going to marry a Miss Grace Hussey at Salisbury of whom the Moberlys speak highly, and Arthur, having a strong taste for teaching, has set up in a house at Hursley with little boys as pupils, and people say very foolish things about its being beneath him, but it is a nice place for a quiet boy to begin in, and if we could afford it we should send Maurice but it is £100 for a boarder & £75 for a day boy dining there. I have referred this gentleman to Edmund Colborne who is sure to know
your most affectionate
C M Yonge