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X955/1/63
Title
To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
17th Oct 1890
Production date
From: 1890 To: 1890
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Street Farm,Ashtead, Epsom
My dear friend
I am very sorry I cannot come. Molly is away and furthermore I cannot leave the office. But if all goes well, I hope to be at Ryde for a day or two about the first week in November.
Our University Extension Lectures on Astronomy at Epsom prosper. Molly (when she is at home) and I go over every Wednesday night, there is a class afterwards. A good many people who go are, of course, church people, and it is instructive to not the difference of their attitudes towards lecture and sermon. They take notes of the lecture, talk about it afterwards, and ask questions.
They don’t do that with the sermon. But the lecturer is the true priest, his lecture is the real religious service and the other – what is it? Couldn’t you make a move - you and your husband can do anything in Ryde – to depose the Vicar and the minister in George Street and put the lecturer in his place? Best love to your dear “man” as the poor women here say and to yourself.
Ever yours,
W.Hale White
Molly is going to Whitby
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