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To Mary Isabel Yonge
February 21st [1880s?]

MS Miss Barbara Dennis/7

My dear Mary1

In the autumn a Mr Yonge in America, an Engineer chose to send me the photograph of his little daughter whom he had named Charlotte and he sent a description of his arms, wanting to know whether he could be of the same family.2 They were not the same as ours, nor as those to which we failed to shew our claim but Julian thought they were the same as yours. Now, American as he is, he has written the long letter which I send in case your husband can gratify him with an answer tracing his Philip and Mary. I am sure he would instantly claim you, if he knew that you had a Philip.

I hope you are quite well. The measles have started in the parish here most inopportunely just before the Government Inspection We rather expect that Joanna will have them, as her great playfellow is in the midst

your affectionate cousin
C M Yonge

1Mary Isabel (Yonge) Yonge (1849-1915), was the second daughter of CMY’s first cousin the Rev. John Eyre Yonge. She married (1872) the Rev. Denys Nelson Yonge (no relation), Vicar of Boreham, Chelmsford. Her second son was Philip Caynton Yonge (1877-1928).
2CMY's American correspondent may have been Samuel H. Yonge.

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/2929/to-mary-isabel-yonge

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