MS Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter/ Yonge 1858/ 1

Dear Miss Smith
I am going to ask you in my private capacity to do me a kindness. My brother is just setting out on an expedition to Norway, and we are ignorant whether we can write to him there in the ordinary manner for the Continent. I mean whether poste restante is the usual form, or if there is any other mode more congenial to the north, and also whether we should spell Drontheim Trondheim.

I trust you will not think me troublesome in asking these particulars which a /former\ resident can so much better be depended for answering correctly than any post office. I should like to know whether you found that your letters were fairly regular. I see they profess to have a daily post.

yours very truly
C M Yonge