Reference
X955/1/29
Title
To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
12 September 1884
Production date
From: 1884 To: 1884
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Park Hill, Carshalton, Surrey
My dear friend,
I am going, if all be well to Portsmouth next Friday for about a week on business. If you are not too busy, I shall come over to Ryde on the Sunday morning following – the 21st – but if anybody will be
there I shall not come. I sat this, because I know Kate's marriage in imminent, and I don’t want to be in Union Street just before the wedding; when perhaps friends will be with you, and you will be pre-occupied.
I should leave Ryde the same evening. Send me just a line to say how it shall be. Tell me the exact truth, because I should really prefer to see you later on in the year, if the wedding preparations are going forward
or the wedding-guests are assembling. For one thing, weddings always make me melancholy-contemplative, and I fall into the Jaques mood –
Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,
And after one hour more, twill be eleven,
And so, from hour to hour etc. etc. (1)
Best love to father and all.
Ever yours
W. Hale White
1) As you like it II, vii
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