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To Gertrude Mary Ireland Blackburne
Elderfield Otterbourne
Sept 24th [1897 or later?1]

MS Charlotte Mitchell

My dear Miss Blackburne
I have advised this Sister Margaret Paulu to write to you about her appeal, as you might manage to get it in for her. I did not know her Mother, they lived beyond our neighbourhood, but my father knew hers well in magistrate’s business, as Col A’Court, and had a great regard for him as an excellent person2

yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1The implication is probably that Blackburne will be able to insert the appeal in The Churchwoman which she edited from 1897, but she might have been working on it earlier.
2Probably Colonel William Henry Ashe A’Court, 2nd Lord Heytesbury, whose daughter the Hon. Margaret A’Court (1855-1933) sent subscriptions to The Net and may have joined the Wantage sisterhood.

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/3585/to-gertrude-mary-ireland-blackburne-2

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