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X955/1/36
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To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
28th Nov 1886
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From: 1886 To: 1886
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Park Hill, Carshalton, Surrey
My dear friend,
I am very glad to hear your husband is getting better. It says a great deal for his constitution and power of self-recovery that he was not wrecked completely. Let us console ourselves with this reflection. Annie is much better. We sent over yesterday and found that she would be up on Tuesday.
Willie's to be married in about five weeks. time. We are getting to know Miss Fripp now. She is so quiet with strangers, that it is rather difficult at first to see her really; but she is wearing into intimacy, and we find her very true, very simple, and very affectionate. She belongs to a different world to ours; but perhaps is none the worse in the Almighty.s sight for that. I hope Willie will succeed. It is a bold game to play; but after all one must risk something. My tendencies are all towards making everything secure, properly protected lines of communication, and covering the retreat; but then America would never have been discovered by such a creature as I am.
We have had an awful time of it last week- fog that might almost be cut in blocks and carted about, and stinking with smoke. I had literally to feel my way home one night, and thought of Ryde, and wondered if the stars were shining there.
We all send our best love – Tell W. Gunnell that Cribb grows apace- of a truth “this is the dog that worried the cat”, for he worries, not only the cat, but everything alive and dead- out of pure fun of course. We have an old, very old, matronly pug and Cribb, the other day, without any provocation, seized her by the back of her neck and dragged her all round the kitchen. The pug was not hurt, but dreadfully scandalized at such indecent, improper behaviour to a lady of her years.
Affectionately yours
W. Hale White
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