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To Frances Dorothy Moor
April 10th 1860

My dear Mrs Moor,

I am afraid Otterbourne will be unrepresented at Ampfield on the 21st, as Mamma and I are going on the 17th to London for a few days, chiefly to meet the Colbornes on their return from Ireland. I did not write before because our plans were not fully fixed. We shall not be long gone, but it is a pity we just miss your celebration.

yours sincerely

CMYonge

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To Florence Wilford
Otterbourne,Winchester.
April 22nd 1861

My dear Miss Wilford

Yesterday was the Ampfield anniversary of the consecration of the Church and I took a grand holiday - including a walk from Ampfield to Hursley with Mr Keble, and so I could not write but we have read your Seven Campbells and like them very much. I suspect boys would believe in them more if John Lackland always went by his English name.

I do not think a Scottish minister stands on the ... continue reading

To Anne Yonge
25 September 1838
My dear Anne Though I wrote to you so short a time ago, I cannot let an opportunity pass without writing. I wished for you last Friday, for I think you would have liked our party of pleasure. As it was St.Matthew’s Day, we asked leave out for Johnnie, Duke, Archer and Charles Wither at seven o’ clock in the morning. They came here in a fly, the horses of which were ... continue reading
To Anne Yonge
Otterbourn
April 19th [1845]

My dear Anne It is a very long time since I have had such a nice long letter from you. I think the great Corfu news has given you a spur. It did take me very much by surprise though certainly if I had been asked to guess which of the Colbornes was going to be married, I should have said Jane, and you know she is at an age when two years of ... continue reading

To Anne Yonge
Otterbourn
July 22d [1845]

My dear Anne Thank you for taking all my impertinence so kindly. I hope you will not be very angry with me for being highly delighted with Mary Coleridge’s prospects, and not even pitying Alethea so much as Cordelia Colborne, for you must remember that Mary will live very near home and the sisters may see each other every day of their lives, and for Mary’s youth, she is much older at twenty, than many people ... continue reading

To Frederick Orridge Macmillan
Elderfield Otterbourne Winchester
Novr 30th 1897

Dear Mr Macmillan I wish to consult you on a matter that I am taking in hand.

Hursley - beside the recent association with Mr Keble has a good deal of local interest connected with it. It has the remains of an old Castle destroyed in Stephen’s time, and the customs of the manor’ are all complete

There are a few curious local anecdotes connected with the place, and there is correspondence in Cromwell’s life about his son ... continue reading

To Sir William Heathcote, Bt.
Elderfield
Feb 15th 1869
My dear Sir William, Julian and I have been looking over the plans in the Church, and find every proof (except Repton’s plan) that the history of the matter was as you believed. The original design was made out between Repton and my father, and Carter was employed to make the drawings but finding him not up the requirements of a taste so fastidious and minute as my father’s was, he (my father) collected examples, made designs, ... continue reading