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[spring 1839]

MS location unknown. This fragment printed by Coleridge, Life, 140.

[To Anne] I am going to Hursley to-day to stay with Mr. Keble, in the hopes of hastening the departure of this tiresome cold.1 I like the thought of the visit very much, though it being the first time of my staying out by myself, how I shall manage winding up my watch remains to be proved.

1‘A lingering cough, in the spring of 1839, led to my spending a fortnight at the Vicarage; and this rendered it altogether another home, where for twenty-seven years every joy and care were alike carried to those who could “make grief less bitter, joy less wild.”‘ Musings over the Christian Year, vi. (The quotation is from a poem which CMY made the epigraph to The Daisy Chain, Chapter 14: and described there as ‘Lines on a Monument at Lichfield’.)

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/2942/to-anne-yonge-10

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