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X955/1/103
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To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
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22 June 1897
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From: 1897 To: 1897
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5 High Wickham, Hastings
My dear friend,
I am very sorry, but what a blessed end! I would give something of life to die in that way. (1) I will be with you in spirit on your golden wedding-day. I shall think of you continually. “Of sons and daughters of Time,” as our old friend Thomas Carlyle says. What a wonderful thing this existence of ours is!
By the way, I have been quite absorbed in reading Norton.s (2) early letters from and to Carlyle. They show how shamefully mendacious Froude is. (3) I think Carlyle’s letters to his mother and his mother’s to him are as touching as anything in the language. Some passages almost upset me. I fancy Richard would greatly sympathize with their deep religion, expressed under those ancient forms. The picture of the hard, peasant life too, he would love.
Best love to you both
Your most affectionate friend
W. Hale White
(1) W. Wright see previous letter.
(2) Probably C.E. Norton who edited T. Carlyle, Reminiscences, ed. C. E. Norton, 2 vols. (1887)
(3) see note, to LTF letter 49.
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