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X955/1/121
Title
To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
22 May 1900
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From: 1900 To: 1900
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Lord's Well Lane, Crowborough,Tunbridge Wells
My dearest friend
I cannot help sending you the briefest note. It must be of the briefest, for words of mine at such a time would be a hateful impertinence, and yet I must send it. It is just to have the satisfaction of speaking that I write. I did not know till between nine and ten in the morning of the funeral at Brading on what day it was to be; so that it was impossible for me to be present. Had I known I should have come, but perhaps it is as well I did not. I have thought of you every hour. Please remember now and then in the midst of your trouble that to me it is continually present. I cannot mitigate it, I cannot mitigate my own, it has loosened my hold on life, but it may be something to you to feel that yours in a measure is mine. Please on no account make any attempt to reply. Some day I shall come to Ryde. Give my love to Kate, and ask her kindly to send me word how you are.
Yours affectionately
W.Hale White
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