MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection, C0171: Box 29.
My dear Mr Coleridge
I send you a Post Office order for £2 which is all I can very well do for this most melancholy case, as just before Christmas is not the time for my galleons to come in. If you will send me another paper, I will forward it to some of the Gibbses who might perhaps be able to do something for the poor family.1 I do not know of any one else to ask.
Thank you for your information about the Melanesian fund, which I thought most satisfactory, for it would be very absurd to detain the money from securities equally good and more profitable.
I was very sorry to miss the Abrahams when they were in this neighbourhood lately but the Kebles saw them. Julian and his bride are with some of her relations at present and my mother has just set off to Winchester to the confirmation of her Godchild, one of the Moberlys.
Pray give my kind regards to your daughter and believe me
Yours very sincerely
C M Yonge