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To Emily Dampier
Elderfield
Sept 11th [1886]

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection

My dear Miss Dampier

So many thanks from Gertrude doubly!

You will like to hear that Philip and Margaret Buston walked over here yesterday with some Grapes for Gertrude.1 They gave a very good account of their mother. There is no house to be had at Twyford, so they are looking for one at Winchester which is wiser, I do not think settling in one’s former parish is ever advisable

Poor Mrs Monroe does not find it so. What a beautiful garden she has made.

There will be no college meeting till October so nothing can be done about the living before that

With Gertrude’s love
Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Philip and Margaret Buston were two of the numerous children of the Rev. Roger Buston (1807-September 1886), Vicar of Twyford. Evidently this letter is written shortly after his death, when his widow and children were looking for a new home.

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/2840/to-emily-dampier

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