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To Jane Mary Dampier
April 24th [1868?1]

MS UCLA: collection 100: box 95

My dear Miss Dampier,
I am sorry to do no more than leave the parcel but we have to be at home in time to take Mrs Halliday to meet the train, so I can only deposit this at your door. I am much better thank you, and the nightingales have begun to sing in hearing from the house though not as near as they sometimes are. I enclose the 1/6 for Montrose.

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1The letter must post-date the marriage of Frances Yonge’s sister Louisa to Frank Halliday in August 1866. The reference to Montrose (about whom Dampier published a novel with a preface by CMY, Lady Beatrix Graham) may possibly relate to a correspondence in MP between September and December 1868, in which a line from Lovelace's 'To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars' was incorrectly attributed to Montrose.
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/3539/to-emily-or-jane-dampier-2

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