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To Misey ?
Elderfield
May 28th 1898

MS Charlotte Mitchell

My dear Misey1
I have been looking for the book, but it is a dilapidated little brochure and has disappeared. Sentence No 1 was only my awkward translation, the crowd was impeding progress, so the old soldier called out ‘Come on, Crawlers, hindering us from going out to die for you’ is the sense The other bit is wrong from a careless omission which I have supplied. I don’t want the M S again, if I may have it in print when the Mag is out. From the 7th to the 17th of June I am going to Rockstone Yealmpton, Plymouth so if there is anything to write to me about please put my initials.2 I go to the last remnant of my dear Puslinch cousins, I think she is the only person left whom I remember from babyhood. She is older than me, but stronger in some ways, though I am quite well and strong – I wish you were!

your affectionate
C M Yonge

1'Misey' is unidentified; an invalid and the editor of a periodical to which CMY has contributed an article, evidently on a military subject.
2Because she would be the guest of her cousin Mary Yonge, who would open letters addressed to ‘Miss Yonge’.

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/3374/to-misey

One Comment
  1. Ellen Jordan says:
    May 27, 2012 at 10:33 am

    Is this the same Misey as the one addressed in the letter of March 24th 1874? Could the name be a shortening of Millicent as in Mysie in Two Sides of the Shield – and if so which Millicent?
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