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X955/1/52
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To Mr Richard Colenutt
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23rd July 1888
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From: 1888 To: 1888
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To Mr Colenutt
Your note is very kind and so is your wife’s – nothing I should like better than to go with you; but I have just come back from the sea; driven back I may say, and I was told that I ought not to have gone there.
I have only a few more days leave and had thought of going for a day or two to Amesbury in order to see where I have never been. I have been assured that there is a pleasant inn at Amesbury; that it is and
interesting town and that as I cannot stand fatigue, I shall find Stonehenge more accessible by way of Amesbury than by driving over from Salisbury.
On looking at the map I observe that Amesbury is very approachable from Southampton. Suppose we three were to set out on Thursday and stay over Sunday, you would not be wanted on any of the intervening days at Ryde and if the borough business absolutely required, you could return without much difficulty.
Let me know by return of post whether this proposed plan is possible for you. Give my best love to Mrs Colenutt. Mr Jackson and Stennett were here yesterday; both looking very well.
Affectionately yours
W. Hale White
Perhaps if you see any objection which is insuperable you might think of some other plan,. I should fancy that an inland change, especially to high ground would do Mrs Colenutt more good than the Island. Tunbridge Wells were there is a very good hotel, with Penshurst near had also attracted me, but perhaps this is too far. It is not more than three quarters of an hour from Dorking where Mrs Colenutt says she means to go. 23rd July 1888
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