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To Blanche Catherine Medhurst
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Sept 22d 18781

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection C0171: Box 29

My dear Miss Medhurst

I believe Emmelines engagement is an excellent one in every way except for the unfortunate matter of the man being a dissenter

He seems to be a very good man, a clerk, and of a station rather above, much given to good works. He has had to provide for a large family of brothers and sisters and is waiting to marry till they are off his hands. I don’t think one can object, she is still a churchwoman and means to be, but is naturally so far unsettled as to think the one as good as the other

I fancy a vigorous church in those parts would have kept the family – (save that I think her brother has good deal of self-conceit) I hope you are comfortably settled

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1The last number is hard to read and the date could be 1876. Emmeline Spratt married William John Gibson (b.1852/3), clerk, in 1883; he may be the man referred to here.

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/2642/to-blanche-catherine-medhurst-8

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