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To Eliza Harriott Keary
Elderfield
Feb 3d [1887]

MS UCLA: collection 100: box 951

My dear Miss Keary

I am afraid Lady Jane Grey will not do for me, as I have had her before in the Cameos.

Please thank the writer for me. Are you living at Kensington still, or is your present address only a temporary one. Not that I ought to give you the trouble of answering me. I hope no girls you were interested in were in that terrible catastrophe.2

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Envelope postmarked Winchester C Fe 4 87, addressed ‘Miss E Keary/Oakhill/Stoke on Trent’.
2Eliza Keary and her sister Annie (who had died in 1879) were interested in a home for unemployed servant girls. CMY may refer to the wreck of the SS Kapunda, an emigrant ship bound for Australia, in which over 200 lives were lost (Morning Post 1 February 1887).

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/2850/to-eliza-harriott-keary

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