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To Mrs Sarah Colenutt

12 June 1888

From: 1888 To: 1888

Park Hill, Carshalton, Surrey My dear Mrs Colenutt It was impossible for me to leave home or I should gladly have come down to Ryde to see you when William was there. I do hope it will not be long before we meet. Tell Kate I have had a great treat this week. I have seen Madame Modjeska and Sarah Bernhardt, our two greatest living actresses. My stagnant blood has not been stirred for a long time. I never saw such genius on the stage. Could not Kate manage to come to London? Sarah Bernhardt will be here for one more week only. Willie will be proud to act as Kate's cavalier and she could sleep here. Perhaps though Fabian would prefer to bring her. Willie is going to be appointed a senior demonstrator. This will double his income, so that we are now at rest as to his money affairs. Jack leaves us next week. He has got a situation at Blaina in South Wales, - an ironblasting place. A friend of Tyndall's was here yesterday. He told me that Tyndall (4) is greatly disturbed at the false impression given by Froude (3) as to the relationship between Carlyle and his wife. It is altogether untrue. She was by no means the drudge and put-upon. creature which Froude makes her to be. Froude once more has sacrificed the truth to his desire for something pictorial Here ends my budget. I always conclude with a prayer as is proper and pious. It is always a supplication to the superior powers-by known I mean S.F.C. and R.C. of Union Street - that they would honour us with their presence. If I could not see you, might I be permitted to have your husband from Saturday to Monday? I cannot write any more. I am tormented with rheumatism which has been digging at my shoulder with an almost ecclesiastical refinement of torture for more than a month. Best love to all from Mrs White and myself. Ever yours W. Hale White 1) Helena Modjeska-Chlapowska (1844-1909), Actress 2) Sarah Bernhardt (Paris, France October 22, 1844 – France March 26, 1923) 3) Froude, James Anthony (1818–1894), 4) Tyndall, John (1820–1893)

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White, William Hale,
Rutherford, Mark,
Colenutt, Sarah Fabian,
Colenutt, Kate,
Chignell, Thomas William,
Bernhardt, Sarah,
Colenutt, Fabian,
Colenutt, Richard,
Modjeska-Chlapowska, Helena,
Tyndall, John,
Froude, James Anthony,
White, Harriet

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