Reference
X955/1/57
Title
To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
1 July 1889
Production date
From: 1889 To: 1889
Scope and Content
Street Farm,Ashtead, Epsom
My dear friend,
I want you to get your husband to promise to bring you here for a day or two including Sunday – next Sunday if possible. There is no fear of cold-catching now. Will you let me know by Wednesday if you will come. Do try and get him to do it. Have you heard anything from Exeter? I was told Willie had been sent to the Cape. I have not had a line from my cousin for twelve months nor has he been near us. I often have half a mind to write and ask him why he is so silent but I always somehow shrink from anything which looks like compulsion to intercourse or correspondence. At the same time I would like to know what has apparently estranged him.
I have bought an astronomical telescope which you shall see – of course a very small one.
The news of my existence lately has been a play “A Doll's House” by Ibsen the Norwegian, which has been acted at the Novelty. It was admirably put on the stage and I have never seen, except for Shakespeare a play which has a nobler motive or is more dramatic. The godly have screamed at it as immoral, but never mind.
Best love to all, Tell me how Charlie is.
Faithfully and affectionately,
W.Hale White
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