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To Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Michaelmas [29 September ?1867]

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

My dear Miss Sewell
(What a horrible pen) We shall be very glad to see you whenever you can come to us in the autumn. We have no engagement in the way. I will try to get the life of St Bernard – but the London Library but I cannot say it is better than other libraries for the ease of getting books.1 wonder if he is among Lamartine’s biographies some of which are telling, and I do not think they are very badly translated. But as you say this is a period when eloquent histories are scarce – Pray let us know as soon as you see your way to us. We have no engagement between next week and December.

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Sic: CMY apparently lost the thread of her sentence when turning the page. An excerpt from James C. Morison, Life and Times of St. Bernard appeared in the second volume of European History (1871). It is tempting to date the letter to 1869, but the use of the word 'we' seems to place it definitely before the death of CMY's mother.
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/3564/to-elizabeth-missing-sewell-11

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