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Mary Ellen Strange to Edward Harris Strange c.1852
Ackworth School
My very dear Papa,
Although it is thy turn to write I thought I should like to avail myself of this opportunity of writing as I spent an hour and twenty minutes over my lesson in bed this morning before 6 a.m. by the clock on the stairs by which we get up that is too fast so that I began at half past four. Last night there was a great fuss as a girl went into hysterics and Thomas Pumphrey was called up stairs to her. This day seven weeks I hope to be preparing to come home the vacation is coming so delightfully near is it not. We have been on such a beautiful walk since I wrote the former and have gathered a great many cowslips and hyacinths the latter were so plentiful that we could not gather one without treading on several others , but we had not so much time there as we should (at West Hill) have liked because it is such a long way off and we did not come back til twenty minutes to six. My tomorrows' lesson is not near finished yet so that I shall not have time to write a great deal more this evening. I had a nice letter from Aunt Nancy this morning in which she mentions their intention of moving to London for a time which I had not anticipated. I sit just opposite the windows in the dining room so that I have a full view of the new building and often see a great many little birds flying in and out of one of its windows so that I think they must have a nest there. I think the children would enjoy making cowslip balls which the girls here have been making but I am afraid the years are over by this time if not, take a piece of anglola and tie it from chair to chair then pick the heads off and hang then over the angola and then tie it up it will make a very pretty ball. C Trusted says that it ought to get to my lesson so with very dear love believe me as ever
Thine affectionately, Mary Ellen.
N.B. Although I had finished my letter before I am obliged to write a little more because Governess says to try the bath again and that makes me feel very miserable that I am not to go til my nettle rash is gone. Please do write soon and ask for me not to go. With my dear love believe me as ever, Mary Ellen
[1852 Mary Ellen leaves Ackworth]
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