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To Gertrude Mary Ireland Blackburne
[late 1885?]

MS location unknown. Printed in Romanes, Appreciation, 188, 189.

Next time I have to set down ‘Likes and Dislikes,’ I shall put a General Election as my chief antipathy.1

I always fancied Hyères the most of these resorts, perhaps because my father was there to take charge of a consumptive cousin in 1816-17, and he used to talk of the sheets of big blue violets. He had been at Waterloo, and was with the army of occupation, and this cousin came out for the fashionable cure of living in a cowhouse. . . . It must have answered in this case, for the patient lived to die an Admiral over seventy, though he had a cough all his life.2

1The other surviving letters to Gertrude Ireland Blackburne can mostly be dated firmly to 1885, and although the evidence is slight, the General Election of November 1885 seems quite likely to be the one referred to here.
2Vice-Admiral Edmund Yonge (1795-1868),  younger brother of the Rev. John Yonge of Puslinch and first cousin of WCY.

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/2821/to-gertrude-mary-ireland-blackburne-6

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