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To Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead
Elderfield
Feb 16th [1898]

MS Devon Record Office, Exeter 53/10/9/1

My dear Edmund
Thank you for the result of your audacious bit of sacrilege, and also Mr Hardy. Mr Bowland’s epitaph, I am glad he was a keeper of the parks and not of the swine! Duthy read the name Bockland and Marsh Bowland1 He must have been a man in good odour with employers and tenants I wonder whether his eulogy is the work of a Bishop’s Chaplain or a college fellow I should think it unusual to give his name in plain English, and the age and date were elaborated pieces of work

So many curious things have turned up since I began about the history of Hursley and Otterbourne that I think it will be very entertaining

Thanking you much
your affectionate cousin
C M Yonge

1The research was connected with her book John Keble’s Parishes, in which she quotes, 19-20, the Latin epitaph of John Bowland (d.1474). Morshead, who taught classics at Winchester College, may have provided the translation.
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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/3369/to-edmund-doidge-anderson-morshead-2

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