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To Sarah Harriet Selwyn
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
June 25th 1885

MS Charlotte Mitchell1

My dear Mrs Selwyn
It is quite too good to be true that your son should come to take care of us, and that we should have you all here.2 There are so few left of your old set of special friends that perhaps you will accept a kind of shadow of them in me. I shall be at home all August and the treat would be exceeding. I should make the acquaintance of your new daughter in law, and all the children. And this is a wonderful place for walks in woods and heaths and downs, so that I think they would be very happy. Then we are in reasonable reach of Fanny Patteson, and I

    do

think it would be very pleasant in many ways.

Old Bishop MacDougal says he well remembers your father, and I think he will be still in residence3 It was a grand sight to have the old and the young Missionary Bishops together yesterday evening. Very delightful and memorable it was. Do pray come, I really think you will be very comfortable and in reach of all manner of pleasant expeditions for the young folk.

yours affectionately
C M Yonge

1With envelope addressed to 'Mrs Selwyn/ The Close/ Lichfield' and postmarked Winchester 25 June 1885.
2The Rt. Rev. John Richardson Selwyn, on leave as Bishop of Melanesia, was acting as locum tenens for the Vicar of Otterbourne.
3The former Bishop of Sarawak was now a canon of Winchester.
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/9097/to-sarah-harriet-selwyn

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