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To an Unknown Person
[September 1885?]2

MS Girton College Cambridge, Yonge IX 41

. . . August and very dreary it was to see the beautiful rooms at Heaths Court with no mistress. I still believe that there will be a great awakening from the present blindness, and Mary . . .

I think Winchester is a rock that binds its limpets fast – not a good simile either for the limpets do go off, only perhaps it is their affections that stay there. I have not near so much to care about there now, as in old times, only perhaps the dear Salisbury people may come back there.3 I believe the elders wish it, but the younger feel more present interest where they are.

I am very sorry you are lame – but I dare say you have plenty of work to do from your sofa. I wish you could see our woods the autumn tints are wonderful this year – and the Virginian creepers are gorgeous

Yours very sincerely
C M Yonge

1The top of the first page is cut away, probably because of some reference to the Coleridge scandal, and what is left of he first side crossed out.
2The letter seems to be connected to Mildred Coleridge's marriage on 24 June 1885 and George Moberly's death on 6 July 1885.
3The widow and daughters of George Moberly, headmaster of Winchester College 1835-1866, and Bishop of Salisbury from 1869.

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/2812/to-an-unknown-person-11

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