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X955/1/130
Title
To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
27th Oct 1901
Production date
From: 1901 To: 1901
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My dear friend
I want you to read pp. 24-37 of the enclosed Demands of Love and Reason. You can also read The Root of the Evil. You need not send them back. Let me have a line to say how you are. I don’t know if writing is a burden to you. It is not quite a burden to me yet, but it is becoming so partly because I am so slow at it and partly because what I now to say seems so unimportant. Then also as we grow old life becomes uneventful. But I do earnestly wish to hear about your health and about the children.
Jack came over from Spain a few weeks ago and brought his wife and daughter with him for about twelve hours. Business, business! He rushed about here, there and everywhere and then went back. Agnes and Cecily stayed with us two days. Cecily of course speaks Spanish as easily as English perhaps more easily. Agnes, although she is over forty now is as handsome, or rather, beautiful as ever. She is very lonely at Burgos. It is difficult to believe that within forty eight hours of us there can be men and women living in a world so different from ours.
Molly and I have been pretty well but we are dreading the winter in this cold place and if I can afford it I think we shall try a warmer climate, probably Torquay, for the worst months.
Be sure you tell me all about my dear Mary and give my particular love to her. If the history of human heroism could be written proportionately, that is to say, not with regard to the publicity of the lives of heroes and heroines, but with regard to the actual worth of what they did and suffered, what a different record it would be!
Best love from both of us.
Ever affectionately
W. Hale White
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