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To an Unknown Woman
Elderfield Otterbourne
Decr 26th [after 1884?]

MS Charlotte Mitchell/31

Dear Madam

I am very sorry not to have answered your letter sooner, I put it aside to enquire about Mrs White, and in the hurry of Christmas preparations it was forgotten. She is not strictly an inhabitant of this parish, but of Compton- where I believe her husband is man to Mr Baldwin the maltster.1 I had heard that she took in washing, and I believe that she is respectable but I know nothing of her capabilities. Mrs Baldwin might be able to tell you

I remain &c
C M Yonge

1James Baldwin (b. Tanworth, Warwicks. 1824/5) is recorded in the 1881 and 1891 censuses as a maltster living at Compton with his wife Josephine (b. Solihull 1826/7), in the former year ‘employing 2 men & 2 boys’. Mrs White might be Ann (b. Michelmersh 1857/8), wife of Thomas White (b. Michelmersh 1851/2), variously ‘steam ploughman’ and ‘engine driver’, living at Silkstead, Compton in 1891.

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/3504/to-an-unknown-woman-69

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