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To the Reverend John Frederick Watkinson Bullock
Elderfield
May 15th 1894

MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: MS English Letters: e.174 ff 149-50

Dear Mr Bullock,
I send you Charles Simeon You see he was entirely taught by the Church and nothing else, so far as his first beginnings of religion were concerned. He disowned being a Calvinist; but I think his mistake was in studying Huguenot sermons. I do not know if you will put the Simeonite preferments into a note. I thought some explanation was needful I daresay you may know one or other of his three grand-nephews.1 The very strong sense of devotion seems to belong to the family and I have little doubt that in these days he would be as strong a Churchman as they are

Yours truly
C M Yonge

1CMY probably meant the sons of Captain Charles Simeon of Hursley (though he had more than three who were clergymen). She was urging Bullock to include Simeon in the 'Biographies of Eminent Anglicans' for his Daily Lections project.
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/3264/to-the-reverend-john-frederick-watkinson-bullock-25

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