MS Charlotte Mitchell/28
My dear Miss Peard
I am afraid the meeting will misfire, as we are now not to go to Teignmouth till the 5th. It is a great pity that it is not to be tomorrow though I own I should be sorry to end our visit here sooner. We shall be at Delamere a house at Bishops Teignton which is lent to the Miss Pattesons, we arrive there on Friday afternoon, and go on Monday on to Puslinch, Yealmton.2 I should be very glad if I could hope to see you but I am afraid to make any appointment till I know what the Pattesons mean to do with me. And as regards Dawlish itself, if they take me there it will be to see Miss Martyn who is just recovering from a bad burn, so that I do not know what she is equal to.
We shall at any rate pass the Dawlish station at 3.1 on Friday, and if you can look for us we may be known by the tokens of my mother in black, and myself in a grey jacket and hat broad and shady trimmed with a great knob of black velvet in front. I would say white straw, but railroad smut marks it too remote from that which it should be. Thanks many for the two books you offer to take.3 I hope in doing Chronicles you will mention the history elucidated in the genealogies – as to the occupations in Egypt &c. I have no time nor space to say more
yours sincerely
C M Yonge