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To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
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20 Jan 1898
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From: 1898 To: 1898
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5 High Wickham, Hastings
My dear friend,
Molly is not at home. She has gone to take Hale back to school. That is why the postcard did not come, or at least partly the reason, and only part, for I promised her I would write and have failed, until now, to keep my word. I am so thankful to hear your dear husband is better, and that he has consented to rest.
What a brave creature to have two teeth out, for I suppose he did not take gas! I have had trouble in the face for two months or more. I cannot localize it in a tooth but I believe teeth are the cause of my misery and that one might to be removed. But I am such a coward. I do not like either to go to a dentist while this cold in my head and chest continues.
Please send a line on a few days to say how you both are.
We had a letter from Assouan this morning. The dry air and sunshine are I hope beginning to do Willie good. His wife says his cough is better and he is stronger. It must be a delightful place for all persons whose health or spirits depend on light and warmth although it is nothing but Desert.
I should have thought the desert is as uninteresting and depressing, but the general testimony is that it is most exhilarating. A record of a king (I forget if I told you this) a king Henes, had just been discovered. His date can be placed with certainty at about 4000 B.C. and Egypt had then a noble art and religion. “Oh sons and daughters of Time” as our out old friend T.C.(1) of Chelsea says.
Best love to both of you
Yours ever affectionately
W. Hale White
(1) Thomas Carlyle after some sixty years. O Time, O Sons and Daughters of Time! ...... Oh no;and died, at any rate, Spring 1751 History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 10 by Thomas Carlyle.
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