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Elderfield, Otterbourne
November 4, 1899.

MS location unknown. Printed in Coleridge, Life, 304

My dear Ellie-
Thank you for your letter. We have heard nothing more, and hardly look for anything, and indeed there had been only one letter from him since he joined Baden-Powell, but that was enough to leave us no doubt that it is himself. 1 I am so glad he had that year at home after the Matabele War.

He was very much loved here. There was to have been a ‘Social Evening,’ but the people begged to put it off for they could not enjoy it.-

Your affectionate
C. M. YONGE.

1CMY's nephew George Yonge, killed on 22 October 1899 at Crocodile River, Rhodesia, during the Boer War.

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/3433/to-helena-heathcote

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