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To Mary Yonge
Elderfield
April 19th [mid 1880s?]

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection

My dear Mary

Gertrude desires me to say that the little fish arrived quite fresh and were very nice too which I can testify as she sent me two for breakfast. I am sorry you could not go to the Kitley entertainment. I dont [sic] think the tenants can be very badly off at this rate!

We had a very nice confirmation Georgie went up first of the boys.1 We had 30 altogether, Hursley 2 Ampfield 15. Mr Moor had to go home directly, she is in a very precarious state with angina pectoris.2 Poor Jewel has been got into the hospital at last, they say he is very bad, and ought to have been there a year ago.3 Louisa is coming to the house on Friday. 3h[?] Allbrook children came to school here last week, and the boys are emulously trying to catch up ours in their arithmetic

Your affectionate
C M Yonge

1CMY's nephew George was born in 1871, so this would place the letter in the mid-1880s.
2Frances Dorothy Moor (1825/6-1913), wife of the Rev. John Frewen Moor.
3Perhaps William Jewell (b. 1853/4), living in Otterbourne as a gardener in the 1881 census, a gardener in Portsea in 1891. He could be the husband of Mrs Jewell to whose poverty CMY earlier refers.

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/2925/to-mary-yonge

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