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To Clifford Wyndham Holgate?
Elderfield Otterbourne
March 31st [1897?]

MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection

Dear Mr Holgate
I think I saw in some county book about Wiltshire that one of the Tukes of Tuke house was said to have been the original of Sir Roger de Coverley. One of my cousins the Crawley Boeveys who believe themselves to belong to the Widow’s heir-at-law, learnt (in an unlucky hour for me) that I had heard this report, and insists on my finding it out for him. I am sure I came upon it when staying in Salisbury, and I think in a book. Can you help me to clear it up for him

I believe he is making a family history1

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1Arthur Crawley Boevey, The ‘perverse widow’ : being passages from the life of Catharina, wife of William Boevey, esq., of Flaxley Abbey, in the county of Gloucester; with genealogical notes on that family and others connected therewith (London: Longmans 1898) claims that Catharina Boevey (1670-1726) was the original of the 'perverse widow' admired by Richard Steele's imaginary Sir Roger de Coverley.

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/3598/to-clifford-wyndham-holgate-2

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