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X955/1/14
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To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
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21 October 1882
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From: 1882 To: 1882
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Park Hill, Carlshalton, Surrey
My dear Mrs Colenutt
Just one word to thank you and Mary (1) for the portraits. They are lovely. Children and the art are both perfect, and the quick vivacious life so characteristic of the mother and so faithfully transmitted by her to her offspring is as well rendered as photography ever can render it. I should have written before but we have been immersed in a - not a sea, nothing so sweet - puddle of small troubles consequent on both servants leaving. Three weeks ago I had a notable week at Porlock with my friend Mr Arthur Hughes (2), who went there painting. It is 12 miles E. of Lynmouth, in a country of glens, moor, mountain and water, a strangely beautiful, untouched land of romance.
Ask your husband if he has read George’s Progress and Poverty, I have gone through it twice. It is a great epoch - making book, denounced furiously of course, but intensely interesting. It is being sold in the streets for 4 1/2d and the edition I have is the 25th.
It is all about political economy, but the conclusions are a revelation, and it has dropped a seed into the minds of thinking men which will split the rocks. I have been unable to let it go, and was up at half-past four this morning to finish it. Whether you yourself will car for the discussions in the earlier part, on which however, everything depends, I do not know, but I am sure the last few chapters would pin you. Best love to father, the children and yourself from us all.
Ever yours
W.Hale White
1) Their eldest daughter, Mrs Gurnell. Mary Colenutt had married William Gurnell, a chemist, and had three children; Mary, William and Thompson.
2) Hughes, Arthur (1832–1915), painter.
3) Henry George, American radical writer. (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) Progress and Poverty 1879. 21 October 1888
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