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X955/1/20
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To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
15th May 1883
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From: 1883 To: 1883
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Mrs Kents, Chale, Isle of Wight
My dear friend
I find I have to go home on Thursday instead of Friday. I must therefore leave here by the 10 o’clock coach and 12 o clock train from Ventnor.
I cannot come to Ryde tomorrow as on Wednesday the carrier does not leave here till 9 o clock and I should not be at Ryde till nearly 2, the trains being particularly awkward. How I wish you were here
today. Willie has gone and I am alone.
Although I cannot see you tomorrow I shall not give up the hope that your husband may be persuaded to take one more day’s holiday.
The trains are much more convenient from Ryde here than hence(?) to Ryde. There is one at 10.41 from St. John’s Road. I shall walk along the coach road to Ventnor tomorrow morning hoping to meet him. He is almost sure to find a coach if he wishes to ride. Three or four have passed here already.
With best love to yourself, him Kate and the children
Affectionately
W. Hale White
I will return the two little books and the flannel by post. I would walk over to Ventnor tomorrow or go over by the coach but I could not catch a train before twelve and I should be obliged to walk from Ventnor home, a task I grieve to say rather too much for my powers now. I was overdone last night by the walk from Ventnor and am wretched today in consequence.
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