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X955/1/32
Title
To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
10 April 1885
Production date
From: 1885 To: 1885
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Admiralty
My dear Mrs Colenutt,
I shall be most delighted to see your husband, as you know – provided, that is to say, the work here leaves me alive. It is perfectly awful, and from morning to night there is nothing but an incessant downpour of telegrams and urgent letters. Much of our difficulty is caused by the anxious desire of the “city” people to serve patriotically their country, i.e. to swindle it.
Fabian may have the barometer – I am very sorry to hear you have been ill. I have been almost prostrated with my old complaints, inability to eat, drink or sleep, and depression of the darkest shade. My doctor is away and I have to see Sir Andrew Clark (1) – he thinks the liver is wrong and I think so too. I know also I want rest, but I cannot give up now.
(1) Clark, Sir Andrew, first baronet (1826–1893), physician.
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