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To Anne Yonge
Otterbourn
Sept 19th [1846]

My dear Anne Thank you for your letter. I am very sorry you feel so deplorable and still more sorry that our last conversation should have been such as to leave an uncomfortable impression on your mind I am afraid it was all my fault and I am particularly sorry to have talked in such a manner as to make you think I meant to set myself up for an example which was far ... continue reading

To Mary Anne Dyson
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester,
May 7, 1874.
My dear Marianne- You will like to see poor Aunt Jane's (Mrs. Harris) letter about dear George, who has done more in his thirty-seven years than most people in twice the time. There must be a most fearful blank at St. Luke's. Only think of his having led to the building of three churches, with most energetic constant services. I hope those two little children will grow up worthy of him. What does Miss Poole say ... continue reading
To Mary Yonge
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.’
Febry 12th 1876

My dear Mary,

So the dear old Sir John Coleridge is gone, except Aunt Jane, I suppose [paper torn off]

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the most conscientious of natures, and all throughout guarded and raised by his deep religiousness I always think the tender

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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