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To Frances Sophia Coleridge Patteson
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
April 29th [1884-91?]1

UCLA: collection 100: box 95

My dear Fanny

I am afraid this is not exactly in the line of the substance of the Packet. I wonder if Miss Maclean would think it worthwhile to pay for it at the rate of 1/ for twenty words and have it put into the advertisement part, in which case she had better send it straight to the publisher.

Eton was a great undertaking. I hope you prospered, and are quite well again. Poor Gertrude has been having a bad attack of German measles, not a good addition to her other troubles. In fact if I went on it would be a list of ailments but Julian seems really to have rather gained than lost ground.

Your affectionate cousin
C M Yonge

1The letter contains no message to Fanny Patteson's half-sister Joanna, so probably post-dates the latter's death in June 1884. It was certainly written before the death of Julian Yonge in October 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/3548/to-frances-sophia-coleridge-patteson

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