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To Christabel Rose Coleridge
July 9th 1877

MS Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas

My dear Christabel

I am very sorry this sad check has fallen on all the bright hopes.1 I remember Mrs Keble saying, when my brother lost his first, how often it happens that the first fruits of a family are thus consecrated and taken, and become in time a happy remembrance.

May has been hoping that Minny’s baby may come today on its great grandfather’s birthday, I wonder if it will. Poor Katie Lloyd is at Ramsgate, very lame.2

I have a nice set of Will stories, some very funny and some very melancholy.3

Your affectionate
C.M. Yonge

1CMY commiserates on the death of Thomas Drake Coleridge (18 Feb-2 July 1877), eldest son of Christabel Coleridge’s brother Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846-1920).
2May was Mary Frances Keble Coleridge (1824-1898), daughter of Sir John Taylor Coleridge (9 July 1790-1876). Her niece Mary (Mackarness) Coleridge, who was married to Bernard Coleridge, was expecting a baby, Geoffrey Duke Coleridge, 3rd Lord Coleridge (23 July 1877–1955). Katie (Johns) Lloyd, was the former Gosling, who had married in 1873 the Rev. John Henry Lloyd, curate of Wormleighton.
3The Christmas 1877 number of MP consisted of stories on the theme 'Will'.
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/2587/to-christabel-rose-coleridge-88