Reference
X955/1/60
Title
To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
16 Jan 1890
Production date
From: 1890 To: 1890
Scope and Content
Street Farm,Ashtead,Epsom
My dear friend
I was very grieved to hear that your dear husband had been so ill. If it is not troubling you too much, please send me word how he is. I hope to come down for a couple of days before long.
Maud Chignell has been staying with us for a little while. I was glad to see her though I am afraid I put my foot in it dreadfully. I talked in the old, full blasphemous style, and not till the child had left did I discover that she had gone over to church and respectability and is about to be confirmed. I began to think that your stock and mine there must be something prerogative none of my children or yours “revert” to use a Darwinian phrase, but all remain in the church of the d _ d_
I had a most melancholy note from Mrs Severn this week. W. Ruskin is again, mentally, quite prostrate, unable to do a single thing.
I think I told you I went over to see Annie at Waddon a little while ago. She seemed better but still not happy and cheerful as she was years ago. Some shadow lay across her face and hardly ever completely shifted, not withstanding a smile now and then.
Mrs White has been very weak lately, very very weak. At times I do not know what to do. Her complaint is simply ferocious in its slow wasting cruelty. Yet William wrote to me the other day to tell me that there was no darkness in the world, otherwise God would not be God.
Best love to your dear husband and the children
Ever affectionately
W.Hale White
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