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To an Unknown Woman
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Jany 3d 1881 [1882]

MS University of Delaware

Dear Madam,

I must apologise most heartily. The fact was, I had sent off your second M S to be printed and foolishly had not set down your address. So when those letters came I searched my memory, and made this strange blunder, I dont know how, except that our vicar being gone away to be married there has been such a whirl of parish work that it has confused my senses, I think.1

However I have set you down safely now in the book of addresses. I should like other parochial papers from time to time thank you though I cannot promise always to put them in immediately I never knew a paper more opportune that your Christmas tree2

Again begging you to excuse my stupidity

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1The Rev. Walter Brock married (3 Jan 1882) Amy Gabrielle Powell (d. 10 Feb 1947).
2'A Christmas Tree at a Workhouse' MP 3rd series 2 (December 1881) 609-612. The second paper referred to in the letter is less easy to identify. 'Bright Days in Workhouse Lives' MP 3rd series 3 (May 1882) 498-500, seems to have appeared a little late to have been in type in January; all the same it may be by the same writer.

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/2739/to-an-unknown-woman-54

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