MS Plymouth and West Devon Area Record Office Ac 1092/31
My dear Augusta
It is a long time since I heard of you and almost as long since I heard of Kate, and I am anxious to know how she got on this summer I hope Ernest is quite well after his chicken pox. I went about looking for him at Domum till I met Mrs Morshead and she told me he was gone home. The only Saints day that they did not have him at the other house, I was obliged to go to a meeting of the Girls Friendly Society so I have not seen very much of him this half.1 Gertrude has been off and on poorly this summer, but she is now gone to her friends at Winston and is to come back on Saturday. I am afraid things are closing in at Puslinch.2 Every letter of Mary’s tells of greater weakness than the last, and I hardly think there can be any rally. It is like watching an old tree come down after it has sheltered one all ones life. Arty has just brought me my letters from Winchester, and here is one from Kate herself. Only think of her being out once more. How wonderful it is! I wonder if she will get to you.
your affecte cousin
C M Yonge