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William Crawley Yonge to the Reverend John Yonge
Otterbourn
March 14. 1849

My dear John I hope the untoward task you had to perform on Monday may turn out better than there seems reason to expect, for really one has no right to look for happiness from such a marriage. As the little man was going to Gibraltar, she had better have left him to take a wife from among the Monkeys of the Rock. He might have matched himself from among so many. Delia ... continue reading

To Mary Anne Dyson
20 October [1850]
My dear Marianne Your letter has so made me overflow that in spite of Sunday evening I cannot help beginning to write after finishing my task of the 7th Command[ment]. You see one part is founded on a saying come down to me, I don't know how, 'that nice men are men of nasty ideas.' I don't know how far all this ought to be administered, or whether innocence should be let alone, innocence of thought ... continue reading
To Anne Yonge
[late 1853?]

enjoyed his two visits very much, though after all he missed Johnny Colborne. Have you had to talk to your princes, it is very funny to think how little we should have believed it if seven years ago we had been told they would be coursing at Puslinch. John Coleridge spent half Sunday here, and brought the American magazine with the account of the clergyman who is said to be Louis XVII, it is ... continue reading