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To Lady Frederick Bruce
Elderfield
Novr 4th 1892

MS UCLA: collection 100: box 95

Dear Lady Frederick
Your letter came just as I was preparing for the demonstration of a tea for our mothers in preparation for the winter’s meetings. It is difficult to answer about the length of a report. Sometimes they get squeezed up and shortened to their very skeleton, sometimes there is room. Could you write the article so as to serve for the paper on the poorer mothers that I always try to have? The time when such things must come in for comfortable insertion is by the 1st of December.1

I am one who believes in teas &c to make things pleasant.

I think you are kind enough to be glad to hear that in about another half year, the Merrifields and some of the Underwoods will meet at Rockstone.2

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1The first contribution to Mothers in Council by Lady Frederick Bruce seems to be ‘Manners and Customs of the Nineteenth Century’ Mothers in Council 5 (January 1895) 2-10, which may be the article referred to. She was active in the work of the Mothers’ Union in the diocese of Salisbury.
2This was The Long Vacation.
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/3205/to-lady-frederick-bruce-2

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