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X955/1/89
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To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
15 Sep 1894
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From: 1894 To: 1894
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9 High Wickham,Hastings
My dear friend
I had hoped to have answered ere this your last letter in person but I have not been much inclined to move and have stuck here through the summer. I am afraid I have done wrong and that I ought to have
conquered the temptation, for I am certain that monotony does no good to anybody, and that excitement and change, within limits, are necessary to health. You, of course, do not feel the necessary of variation of
condition as I do, for you have children all around you and your husband and business, so that each day wears a different aspect. However, I do trust I shall be able to vanquish my inertia before long and to see you all once more.
I was at Brighton yesterday, just to catch a glimpse of my old friend Holyoake (1) again. He is now 74, but as busy as ever, lecturing and making speeches, and hid enjoyment of life is very keen. While
with him I read a letter from Francis Newman (2), who is now close upon 90, and it is in the same clear, neat hand which I remember 40 years ago. He is still well, and has just published a new book.
I do not wish you and your husband would come here. I should love to show you Winchelsea and something really old. You ought every now and then to see a genuine and lovely piece of antiquity, living as you do in a town which is new. You are almost within sight of us! Won’t you relent?
Molly has just returned. We both send our love to you and to your husband.
Your affectionate friend
W. Hale White
(1) Holyoake, George Jacob (1817–1906), freethinker and co-operator.
(2) Newman, Francis William (1805–1897), classical scholar and moral philosopher.
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