MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection¹

My dear Lord Nelson
Thank you very heartily for your notes. It is very pleasant to see how much one’s contemporaries minds are to one’s own. I think all of that training in experience and principle that we have had must feel the expedience of submission in what is not a vital point, if a stand is to be made on what is important. Nor do I see, what the enemy aver, that yielding in these points leaves us open to attack in others that have long been conceded. The reasons/placus\[?] are the weak point in the decisions, as every one agrees, but I fully believe that greater strength will come out of the struggle, as has so often happened before

Then there was almost nothing to be touched either by the decision or our own Diocesan’s own interpretation in [illegible] change, but thus far I see that we shall not have a special observance of All soul’s day tomorrow as we had last year though of course All Saints is specially marked.

I look up to Brickworth whenever I pass towards Salisbury, more seldom now than formerly and remember walks on the downs²

I always enjoy meeting Susan at Winchester functions

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge