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Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
July 9th [before 18771]

MS Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin

My dear Mrs White

Miss Barnett’s niece, Emma Butler, who is here tells me that her Aunt is intending to write an account of your Convalescent home, so that I suppose she is only waiting for time.2 If she should fail, I should be very happy to have the account from yourself – or perhaps you have settled it with her – I am afraid my vote for Earlswood is disposed of3

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1This letter must antedate Emma Butler’s marriage in the last quarter of 1877 to Edward Lewis Knight.
2There are many references to convalescent homes in MP and it is not possible to identify with any certainty the one referred to here.
3The Royal Earlswood Asylum for Idiots opened in 1855. As a subscriber, CMY had a vote to cast when a vacancy occurred.

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/3557/to-mrs-white

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