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To Florence Belfield
Elderfield Otterbourne Winchester
Jan 20th [1900]

MS Girton College Cambridge, Yonge XIII 11

Dear Mrs Belfield
The precious mittens are safely come – it is a very curious genealogy for them – They are exactly like some little lace mittens of the 17th century figured in Mrs Earle’s ‘Child Life in Colonial days’

Madam Cromwell must been Elizabeth daughter of Richard who died at 83 in 1741 – Her mother, who was Dorothy Major of Hursley died in 1675 – so the mittens could not have been sent to her –2

I will return them as soon as I have been able to shew them to a cousin of mine, devoted to King Charles and will in the meantime keep them safely

I knew Mrs Wynyard when she was living at Hursley. I was glad to hear she is so much better

Yours truly
C.M. Yonge

1Envelope addressed to ‘Mrs Belfield/Malmain/French hay /Bristol and postmarked Winchester 21 January 1900.
2The mittens had no doubt been sent to CMY in response to the account in John Keble's Parishes of the connection of the Cromwell and Major families with Hursley.
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/3440/to-mrs-belfield-2

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