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To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
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9 St.James Square, Bath
My dear friend
Molly and I are staying in Bath for a little while. We came partly for a change and partly because a friend, Mr. Archibald Constable, grandson of Sir Walter Scott's Constable (3) is here and wished us to be his neighbours for a week or two. We like the city. It is full of memories of Landor (2) and Jane Austen, and it has an air of eighteenth century pomp, refreshing after the suburban villas of Crowborough. I am almost sure I have heard you or Mary talk of Limpley Stoke near Bath, am I right?
Willie and all his family have gone to Mullion in Cornwall for the winter. He has got through the year very well.
Our best, best love to you. I am anxious to catch the next post, if I do not you will not hear till Thursday and will wonder why I have not answered your letter.
Ever affectionately
W. Hale White
(2) Landor, Walter Savage (1775–1864), poet and author,
For some years Landor led the life of an idle young man, enjoying the fashionable society of Bath and
London and always in debt.
(3) Constable, Archibald (1774–1827), publisher. 24 Dec. 1901
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