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To the Reverend John Frederick Watkinson Bullock
Elderfield Otterbourne
Jan 31 [1894]

MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: MS English Letters: e.174 ff 1651

Dear Mr Bullock,
I think Gordon must have been confirmed, as he was chiefly brought up in England. I see you have marked Bishop Andrews.2 Can you tell me of any short biography of him, I have to recommend books for our Higher Religious Education Society – books for that era of James I

I doubt Miss C Coleridge having time to write for you. But Miss Anderson Morshead – Industrial School Andover – knew Bishop Gray well, and could write of him Could write of Abp Sancroft3 or Bp Mackenzie – whose sister Anne was one of truest saints I ever knew –

I think you should have Frances Havergal – She was most devout and good, though not High Church, but most attached to the church. Also Agnes – the devoted workhouse nurse, and I do think Mrs Trimmer and Hannah More ought not to be omitted. Also Lady Falkland4

I have a few doubts whether Miss Sellon realised this saintly ideal. However she fought a great battle

Yours truly
C M Yonge

Would Miss M Trench, the writer of Charles Lowder’s life write him for you?

1Endorsed in another hand 'Miss Yonge has been asked to do Abp Sancroft Bp Mackensie R Fanshaw'.
2This letter, and others to Bullock, relate to his project for a book called Daily Lections which was only published in part. Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626), bishop of Winchester was one of the proposed subjects of a section, which survives in MS in the Bodleian library and is there catalogued as 'Biographies of Eminent Anglicans'.
3William Sancroft (1617–1693), archbishop of Canterbury .
4Later letters make it clear that CMY refers to Lettice Cary, Viscountess Falkland (c.1612-1647), rather than her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland (1585-1639), Catholic convert and controversialist.

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/3245/to-the-reverend-john-frederick-watkinson-bullock-2

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