MS Girton College Cambridge, Yonge XIV 2

Dear Mrs Gordon
What a work you have been doing at York! Here in our county division, we had no opposition to an old Conservative member, so we were saved all the battle and heartburning; Winchester elected its Conservative, and Southampton our native squire – It is a most agitating election, and oh! How dreadful it would be to have a triennial parliament.

I have finished Eunice and she gives one a great deal to think about. The children and their mother are delightful, and the hint about putting out one’s finger to help Providence is a very valuable one, So is the shewing poor Eunice’s want of foundation, and want of power to repel the stings – while Polly’s selfish sense of safety without repentance repels her more. How curiously it is the extremes meeting the Indulgence sparing the trouble of repenting in the same way.

Miss Coleridge’s permanent address is Cheyne Torquay, but she is at Malvern just now. If she spends any time in London on her return I hope she may have a talk with you

Yours very truly
C. M. Yonge