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To the Reverend John Frewen Moor
Elderfield
April 17 [1896]

MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: English Letters: e 86.

My dear Mr Moor
I have a very kind woman, Mrs James Hoskins who has brought up 6 daughters and two waifs and strays very well – is a Communicant &c She has a vacancy now having lost an old aunt who lived with her and having now only a brother and sister 8 and 7, would be glad of another child.

Only the Waifs and Strays specify that other or lodgers must not be taken, meaning I think to exclude Bernardos[sic] – Would you send me in full the antecedents of this child, so that I could ask permission of Mr Rodolf of the Waifs.1

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Edward de Montjoie Rudolf (1852-1933), prime mover in the foundation of the first Church of England Central Home for Waifs and Strays in 1881, which became the Church of England Society for Providing Homes for Waifs and Strays, and focussed on boarding out the children in families.

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/3323/to-the-reverend-john-frewen-moor-5

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