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Elderfield Otterbourne
June 15 1900

MS West Sussex County Record Office/ Add. 16,944/7

Dear Miss Walker
Thank you for writing to tell me of the fate of the letters, I am afraid such has often befallen the like when they descend to a generation too young to care for them and not wishing for the encumbrance. I have a screen worked in that way by my mother, but I think almost all my other possessions of the kind have worn out.

Mr Hobart Hampden has his eldest sister Sarah staying with him, and I hope she will make her home with him, as the father died in the winter and the other two sisters are in India1

yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1The Rev. Alfred Bertie Hobart-Hampden (1860-1923), rector of Cottered, Herts. His eldest sister was Sarah Maria Hobart Hampden (d.1939). Their mother was Jane Awdry (d.1874).

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/3462/to-maria-edith-walker-2

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