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X955/1/96
Title
To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
3 Oct 1895
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From: 1895 To: 1895
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5 High Wickham, Hastings
My dear friend,
At last I am able to sit up and write with a pencil. Just before I left Bassenthwaite I felt very unwell, but I had once before disappointed my friends at Rochdale, I determined to go there. I became worse and started for home the next morning. Never shall I forget that railway journey! It was intensely hot, and I nearly fainted. When I reached Hastings the doctor came and said I had influenza with pneumonia of both lungs. My temperature was very high, but I was not delirious. Two nurses took change of me, and owing, I suppose, to my non-inflammable composition the temperature soon fell. The cough was perpetual and most exhausting, but I hope it is subsiding.
I write not in order to tell you all this dismal tale, but because I want to see a bit of your handwriting and to hear a bit of Ryde news as I lie here in bed miserably dull. Tell me anything fresh about Mary. Best love to yr dear husband & the children
Ever afftly
W. Hale White
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