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To Blanche Catherine Medhurst
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
[1878?]

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection C0171: Box 29

Dear Miss Medhurst,

Thank you for your kindness to Emmeline.1 I believe she is coming down here for a month to recruit if her brother can spare her. I hope it is only want of love, but her aunt is anxious because loss of voice was the beginning of illness with another aunt – a school mistress – who went into a decline and the thought of whom prevented us from pressing Emmeline to be a school mistress.

I am sorry to hear of the break up of your home in Dorset square. I am afraid you will miss all your old habits very much2

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1Emmeline Spratt was the niece of CMY’s maid Harriet Spratt.
2Blanche Medhurst was living with her mother, grandmother and two elder sisters at 29 Dorset Square at the time of the 1871 census. The grandmother’s death was registered in the first quarter of 1878.

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/2690/to-blanche-catherine-medhurst-9

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