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To Blanche Catherine Medhurst
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
June 5th 1877

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection C0171: Box 29

My dear Miss Medhurst

It is ungrateful not to have thanked you sooner but your letter came while I was from home and I have since been working through the accumulation of things that had arisen on me

What a good photograph yours is. I am sure they are much improved since there was only a little face on the top of a great crinoline. I am afraid the Infirmaries in many places – as well as her own friends will long miss Miss Mackenzie.

Thank you for all your kindness to Emmeline.1 Her brother brought his pretty little boy here for Whitsuntide and I suppose she will appear some time in the summer for her holiday and then I shall hear of you.

I am afraid I must return your verses as they do not quite approve themselves to me

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Medhurst, who occasionally contributed to MP and did good works in London, had befriended Emmeline Spratt, the niece of CMY's maid Harriet Spratt.

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/2584/to-blanche-catherine-medhurst-7

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