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To Frances Sophia Coleridge Patteson
Elderfield
Aug 9th [1889?]

MS Columbia University Library, New York: Samuels, J.H. Collection

My dear Fanny

Mrs Selwyn comes on Thursday, the Bishop on Saturday.1 It will be a very thing if you do go down to enliven Mrs Selwyn on Friday for it has so turned out that this week is the only one when I can go down to see my poor dear old May, so I am going down there from Tuesday till Friday evening or Saturday morning I am not sure which. I am sorry to miss you but I dare say you will be about again and poor May wants me. Alice will be there the last day I think.

If you do come down on Friday, and it is not a bad day with Gertrude, she will be delighted to see you for a little while – the best time between 3 and 4 or 5

Your affte cousin
C M Yonge

1The Rt. Rev. John Richardson Selwyn (1844-1898), who became Bishop of Melanesia in 1877 and retired to England finally in September 1891. This letter may date however from his previous visit to England in June 1889-January 1890. The Mrs Selwyn referred to is probably his mother, Sarah Harriet Richardson (d. 1907), widow of the Rt. Rev. George Augustus Selwyn (1809-1878), bishop of New |Zealand and then of Lichfield, though it appears that his second wife Annie Catherine (Mort) Selwyn, whom he had married in 1885. was also present.

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/3588/to-frances-sophia-coleridge-patteson-2

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