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Elderfield Otterbourne
April 18th 1899

MS Hampshire Record Office 9M55 F56/21

My dear Mrs Packe
I am sure that the correspondence would be most interesting and suggestive, only I am not quite sure in what way you thought of letting it appear, whether as the actual letters abridged or as a digest of them, or to shew a selection to anyone who might be writing an account of the times. 2 They would reflect the feeling of the early times surprisingly to many, and I think there would be surprise at how much the plain long services now so much despised were to people like them.3

Perhaps if you liked to talk this over, you would let me know when you are coming to Crookham. I should be very glad if you could spend a day or two here, as I now have room

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1With envelope addressed to Mrs Packe/Honies House/West Wickham/ Kent and postmarked Winchester 18 April 1899.
2The lifelong correspondence, now preserved in Hampshire Record Office, between Anne Sturges Bourne (who had brought Penelope Packe up) and Mary Anne Dyson.
3The ‘early times’ are those of the Tractarian revival.

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/3405/to-penelope-packe-2

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