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To Mrs Swinton
Sunday Aug 13th [18991]

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection

My dear Mrs Swinton
Thank you once more for the Waterloo letters which I have read with the greatest pleasure.2 They bring it close to us, just as did Lord Seaton and my father talking it over. I rather wonder to see the Prince of Orange such a favourite but probably he was very different to young girls from what he was to Lord Seaton who was his ‘bear leader’ for some time

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1The 13 August also fell on a Sunday in 1882 and 1893.
2The reference might be to Waterloo letters. A selection from original and hitherto unpublished letters bearing on the operations of the 16th, 17th, and 18th June 1815, by officers who served in the campaign ed. Major-Gen. H.T. Siborne, R.E. (London: Cassell 1891) or to Letters and journals of Field-Marshal Sir William Maynard Gomm from 1799 to Waterloo, 1815 (London: Murray 1881), the latter of which includes some favourable references to William (1792 -1849), prince of Orange and later King of the Netherlands, whose military secretary during the Waterloo campaign was CMY’s step-uncle John Colborne, later 1st Lord Seaton.

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/3417/to-mrs-swinton-2

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