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To the Reverend William Harris Walter Bigg Wither
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Easter [5 April 1885]

MS Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin

My dear Mr Wither

It has been a beautiful day Easter day, full Church and 104 Communicants – 50 early and 54 late – not quite so many as last year, but Frances was in bed with neuralgia and Helen is at Arlington. We had scarcely enough primroses for the Church, they are so late this year – but there were plenty of daffodils and it looked very well

No, Mildred Coleridge has not married Adams nor do I think she will marry him.1

It is altogether the most extraordinary and miserable business I ever heard of, and my poor Mary is quite heartbroken about it.

Mrs George Heathcote is at the Park and came over on Wednesday to see Gertrude

Your affectionate
C M Yonge

1The Hon. Mildred Coleridge, niece of CMY's great friend Mary Coleridge, married Charles Warren Adams, against the wishes of her family, on the 24 June 1885.

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/2804/to-the-reverend-william-harris-walter-bigg-wither

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