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X955/1/26
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To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
6 June 1884
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From: 1884 To: 1884
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Mrs. Mumford's, Bank, St. Mary's, Scilly, Cornwall
My Dear Mrs Colenutt
I have just got your note, and as the post goes at 7.30 a.m. I must be brief. I got William to come here with me the day before yesterday. It is the strangest, out-of-the-way, sea-swept, wind-swept place you
can imagine, lonely, granitic, tropically-flavoured-aloes and palms for example growing in the open. How we both long for S.F.C. and R.C. of Ryde!
I should have written to your husband to join us but his last note was such a melancholy refusal to leave home any more that I dare not. There is still room, however, for repentance if he likes to telegraph and say he will come.
Miss Page will not be married I believe for another 18 months- It is very provoking that so promising any offer should have come just now.
We both send our love to you, your husband and the household of faith.
Yours most affectionately
W.Hale White
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