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To Elizabeth Rundle Charles
Elderfield Otterbourne Winchester
Oct 15th [1885?]

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection

Dear Mrs Charles

Thank you most heartily for the book you have been so kind as to send me. Such lives as those always remind me of that saying of Sir Walter Scott that Mrs Hemans preserved – ‘Do not say that noble blood is wasted, it sends down a roaring voice through all time’1

May it lead to fresh worthy deeds –

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Elizabeth Rundle (1828-1896) married Andrew Charles in 1851 and published historical fiction as Mrs Rundle Charles. The book referred to in this letter was probably herThree Martyrs of the Nineteenth Century: Studies from the Lives of Livingstone, Gordon, and Patteson (London: SPCK 1885). CMY was fond of quoting Walter Scott's statement, recorded by Felicia Hemans: 'Do not say that noble blood is wasted, it sends down a roaring voice through all time’. The quotation occurs The Daisy Chain II, Ch.5, the source being, Harriet Browne, Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Hemans, 200.

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/2817/to-elizabeth-rundle-charles

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