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To Anna Rachel Bramston
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Sept 12th 1876

MS Auckland Central City Library: Special Coll manuscripts RBR MS 135.

My dear Miss Bramston,

I have an urgent appeal sent through the Freemans of Somerleaze for warm garments for the poor refugee Servians

Miss Johnstone, 10 Ovington Gardens SW is going out again to Herzegovina on that day, and begs for money, serge blankets or any thing warm for the poor creatures

Perhaps you saw the account in the Cornhill, 3 months ago1 They will not be able to go on coming to that sort of school unless some clothing is sent them. If you can interest anyone in Manchester will you send the parcel there? I write to you as I think your sister is away

Have you found a GFS secretary?

Yours sincerely
C M Yonge

1This article was Mrs Kennard. ‘A lady’s visit to the Herzegovinian insurgents’ Cornhill Magazine, vol 34 (July 1876), 60-73. Nationalist risings against the Ottoman government in the Balkans led to the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-8. CMY's friend Edward Augustus Freeman had been raising money for Balkan refugees since the previous year, and his son-in-law Arthur Evans had publicized in the Manchester Guardian the work of Paulina Irby (1831-1911) and Priscilla Johnston, who had formerly run a school for Christian girls in Sarajevo, and were now working with refugees on the border with Austrian Slavonia: see Dorothy Anderson, 'Paulina Irby (1831-1911)' ODNB, and Edward Augustus Freeman, 'The Sufferers in Eastern Europe' The Times (11 October 1876) 7.

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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/2563/to-anna-rachel-bramston-4

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