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X955/1/95
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To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
2 Sept 1895
Production date
From: 1895 To: 1895
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c/o Mrs Ellwood, Routenbeck,Bassenthwaite Lake, Keswick
My dear friend,
I should like now to know what will become of Mary and the children. I suppose something has been settled by this time.
We as you see are once more in the land of mountains and falling waters. We are at a farmhouse, simple as it can be, but very sweet and very quiet, with a tumbling beck under our windows and the hills sheer up on our left hand. Such a place! Oh, how I wish you were here! Can you not persuade yourself to come? If you are unable to walk, you could sit out of doors and see the lake and the Derwent. If you yourself refuse, try to entice your husband here. The summer trains are wonderfully quick and smooth, and I was less fatigued by traveling from Euston to assenthwaite than by the journey from Hastings to London. Do your best. I am serious in my proposal .
Jack’s baby is well and so is the mother. I regret my inability to enter into the rapture of parents. Jack had had a strange time in Russia and has seen strange sights. My poor, poor daughter in law in London has had to endure terrible suffering – you know what an operation she had to undergo, a fearful venture. She recovered but the came a relapse and for a few days our anxiety was extreme. She is now better, but cannot sit up in bed. Willie says it is her resolution which has saved her and this I can well believe.
Love to you and your husband & the children and yourself from both of us. Don’t let there be any rash, hasty put off – “oh no of course not” and so on.
Affectionately
W. Hale White
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