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To Lady Sophia Matilda Palmer
Elderfield Otterbourne Winchester
Decr 6th 1893

MS University of Iowa; MsL/Y56se

My dear Lady Sophia,
I am asked to send this card, in case Lord Selborne has a vote disengaged for this poor young man. I hope the Blind are not so plentiful as idiots and incurables from whom there is no peace!1

I suppose you have Dr Pusey’s life, it must be wonderfully interesting but it has not yet come in my way.2 It seems to fill up the complement of the other lives – I remember hearing about Lucy Pusey’s death.3 She must have been the flower of the flock.

Yours very sincerely
C M Yonge

1No doubt the Earl of Selborne was a subscriber to an institution for the blind, perhaps the Hampshire Blind School.
2Pusey’s eldest child Lucy Maria Bouverie Pusey (?1829-22 April 1844).
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/3238/to-lady-sophia-matilda-palmer

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