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To Mary Yonge
[1899-1900?]

MS West Devon Area Record Office Acc No 308

[To Mary Yonge]

with the 7th division – We have had a great deal of slight illness here, my cook is just up again from influenza, and a great many people in the village have been having it, nonetheless there were 110 Communicants yesterday, 40 of them at 6.30- We dined at one at the Vicarage all the children now being old enough to be there, the little one, Joan is such a good little gentle thing never any trouble. Margaret is high spirited and not easy to manage, but the two elder ones are quite discreet personages and come up the village by themselves and go to Church.1 I believe Reginald is to go to school at Easter and a great loss he will be, but he wants boy companions

your affectionate
C M Yonge

1Marjory Joan Georgina Bowles (1896-1979), Margaret Ernestine Bowles (1894-1984), Cicely Gertrude Bowles (1890-1974) and Reginald Julian Albany Bowles (1891-1916) were CMY's great-nieces and great-nephew, children of the Rev. Henry Bowles and Alethea Yonge.

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/3595/to-mary-yonge-2

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