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William Crawley Yonge to the Rev. John Yonge, including Charlotte Mary Yonge to Anne Yonge
[?January 1837]

MS Plymouth and West Devon Record Office 308/82

My dear John,
Since P?? I have thought a little more about Northcote’s application for a reduction and really on second consideration it does seem to be most unreasonable. Considering the situation, Garden &c I do think that at £70 it is one of the cheapest houses to be found. I am sure I know of none in a come at able situation to be compared to it for cheapness I know that that house in this country would let for £160 or 170. He might perhaps get a house for £10 a year less in the neighbourhood of Kingsbridge or Two Bridges, but I suppose he is hardly fool enough to go into such a country without roads for the sake of ten pounds. I dined at Sir Thomas Barings last night and wrote the first page of my letter this morning before breakfast.1 When I came home Charlotte fancied I had finished it and left space for her so she wrote the scribble which appears on the opposite page

yours affectly WCY

Heathcote dined at Stratton with me so I got him to frank which was handy for Edmunds letter.2

My dear Anne

I ca’nt [sic] say I have much to say but the agreeable news that Mamma and Julian are a great deal better today and Graham’s cold was better when he went. Poor Stumpie was found in the village yesterday morning with his leg broken, but he is going on very well as I believe though it coud not be kept because of its being broken so high up. I hope Edmunds keys arrived in safety he also left behind one of the Stiks and his stick

your very affectionate cousin
CMY

1Sir Thomas Baring (1772-1848) 2nd Bt., of Stratton Park, which is eight miles north of Winchester.
2Edmund and Graham Colborne were the schoolboy sons of John Yonge's sister Elizabeth, whose husband was currently Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada.
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/2935/william-crawley-yonge-to-the-rev-john-yonge-including-charlotte-mary-yonge-to-anne-yonge

One Comment
  1. Ellen Jordan says:
    June 15, 2011 at 10:16 pm

    Who is Edmund of the keys?
    It would be helpful to know how Sir T. Baring fitted into the local society. Was Stratton near Otterbourne?
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