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Elderfield
Decr 29th 1900

MS Hampshire Record Office 9M55 F56/3

My dear Mrs Packe
Thank you for the sight of the letters, it looks so like the old old times.1 And certainly those were days when there was no ‘looking over the wall’ in contrast to these when one may ‘steal a horse’ Do you know what has become of that window? Perhaps you have it I suppose the poor old Bishop was in a regular panic, assisted by his Grace’s wife. Yet he was the first since the days of the NonJurors who began to waken the diocese into life.

The school undertakings are most characteristic and universal and how they were worked at to the very end

Yours sincerely with all good Christmas and New Year wishes
C M Yonge

1The letters were probably those between Anne Sturges Bourne (cousin of Penelope Packe) and Mary Anne Dyson, now in Hampshire Record Office.
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/3474/to-penelope-packe

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