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X955/1/9
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To Mr Richard Colenutt
Date free text
28 Spet 1880
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From: 1880 To: 1880
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Park Hill, Carshalton, Surrey
My dear friend
We got home late last night. I am very glad to hear the shoulder is getting better. I shall not venture to see Mrs. Colenutt for some time to come, for I am afraid she will think that if it had not been for me the accident would not have happened. It was a mere chance, however, that it did not happen to me. I did not use my stick as you did, and it was plunging about those rocks with the stick that was the cause of the mischief. I don't think it was what people call doing too much. because no other limb or joint gave way.
I am very vexed I made a mistake about Wordsworth's House at Rydal Mount. It is so long since I went there that I confused it with the one next to it. You actually did see the chimneys of the real Rydal Mount, but I pointed out as the place where Wordsworth lived a cottage which adjoined his. I send you a photograph of the Mount to make amends.
Willie (1) and I went to Ruskin’s. He was not at home, but we saw Brantwood. It is the loveliest situation I have seen in that part of the world.
Best love to all. Tell Mrs Colenutt I will offer with all ceremony a propitiatory sheep, or if she prefers it an ox, to make my peace with her.
Faithfully yours
W.Hale White
You will be glad to hear that Willie (1) had been elected house surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Children. (2)It is his first paid appointment. Those at Guys have been honorary. There were twenty-six candidates.
(1) His eldest son.
(2) The Evelina Children's Hospital was founded by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild and opened in June 1869. It is now part of Guys and St.Thomas’s
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