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To Ellen Barlee
Torquay
May 5th 1888

MS Winchester City Council, Historic Resources Centre LH3803.1

My dear Miss Barlee

The Bishop of Madagascar has sent me this sad history of devastation asking to have it made known in the Net, so I send it to you direct.1 It has wandered a little as I am making visits in Devonshire but I hope to be at home by the end of the month.

yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Evidently Ellen Barlee, writer, social worker and contributor to MPhad succeeded Anne Mackenzie as editor of the missionary journal The Net. The first Anglican Bishop of Madagascar, the Rt. Rev. Robert Kestell Cornish (1824-1909), was consecrated in 1874. His brother-in-law taught at Winchester College and was a friend of CMY's.

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/2882/to-ellen-barlee

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