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To Mary Yonge
Elderfield
July 28th [1893?]

My dear Mary I was obliged to let the Guardian go that week before I had really read it, but it must be a mistake for our dear Charles cannot be referred to in Bp Wordsworths Christian Boyhood, as it was published before his death. I know he had a copy full of marks of his own. There is a note in the book about the poet Bowles and the habits at Winchester, and ... continue reading

To Mary Yonge
Elderfield
Sept 17th [1897]
My dear Mary I am glad Yealmpton has not been kept longer in suspense, it is so hard for a parish to wait long, and I really think it is better for the wife to move at once in the freshness of grief when she scarcely can dwell on the loss of home than to wait till later when she has time to feel it. It must be pleasant for Mrs Warner to move to that ... continue reading
To Elizabeth Wordsworth
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
14 May 1872
My dear Elizabeth I feel such a strong inclination to call you so and to think I have known you all your life that I do not think I shall balk myself at the risk of appearing to you both a gushing and impertinent old lady. NB – I have first read a letter from a contemporary – a year younger talking of her three great nieces also of gout and rheumaticism Isn’t that enough to ... continue reading
To Mary Yonge
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
March 20th 1876

My dear Mary

Thank you much for your letter. It is curious that Mary Woollcombe should have found the report going, but I think no one likes to speak to any of you of gossip concerning any of the family. As to the measure of the loss we do not fathom it yet, it is so mixed up with all sorts of things and people, as I suppose those things are. It is ... continue reading