MS location unknown. This fragment printed by Coleridge, Life, 140.
On my birthday1 I went to breakfast with Mr. Keble, and then after I had my examination, or rather Mr. Keble talking about the catechism to me so kindly.2
[late August 1838]
1Her fifteenth birthday was 11 August 1838.
2CMY recalled in Musings over the Christian Year, iv: ‘it was as a kind of outlying sheep that I was allowed to be prepared by him for the confirmation of the year 1838. I went to him twice a-week from August to October, and after the first awe, the exceeding tenderness and gentleness of his treatment made me perfectly at home with him . . . After examining into the true import of Confirmation, he went through the Catechism with me, dwelling (when we came to the Commandments) on the point that the whole Israelite nation stood as the type of each Christian person, so that what was said to them nationally applies to us each individually.’
2CMY recalled in Musings over the Christian Year, iv: ‘it was as a kind of outlying sheep that I was allowed to be prepared by him for the confirmation of the year 1838. I went to him twice a-week from August to October, and after the first awe, the exceeding tenderness and gentleness of his treatment made me perfectly at home with him . . . After examining into the true import of Confirmation, he went through the Catechism with me, dwelling (when we came to the Commandments) on the point that the whole Israelite nation stood as the type of each Christian person, so that what was said to them nationally applies to us each individually.’
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/2937/to-anne-yonge-5
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