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To Amélie Claire LeRoy
Elderfield
Oct 22d [?1897]

MS Alice Marshall Women’s History Collection, Penn State University

My dear Aimée,
Many thanks for the Major Correspondence.1 The account of the battle of Newbury is curious and so is the account of the week’s pay of the officers and soldiers The trumpeters must have made a good thing of it. Pray thank the possessor very much from me.

The woods are a perfect feast of colour just now, almost as lovely as in primrose time

yours affectionately
C M Yonge

1This reading is conjectural; the word might also read Magin or Majur. In Chapter 4 of John Keble’s Parishes (1898), CMY quotes from the correspondence of Oliver Cromwell with Richard Major (1603/4-1660), of Hursley, whose daughter was married to Cromwell’s son Richard. BL Add. MSS 24860-1 are papers of Richard Major, and it is possible that all or part of this collection, or other Major papers, had been shown to CMY in connection with her research.

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/3360/to-amelie-claire-leroy

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