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X955/1/161
Title
To Mrs Sarah Colenutt
Date free text
29th May 1906
Production date
From: 1906 To: 1906
Scope and Content
The Cottage, Groombridge, Kent
My dear friend
Will you or Charlie ask Hughes (1) if it is possible to have an untouched portrait of Mary? I prefer an untouched picture to one which is so highly stippled. Of curse if I cannot get what I should like I will thankfully choose one of those you have sent.
We came back from St. Leonards last Friday. I think I told you our next door neighbour lent us a house. A few days before we returned Molly had a telegram marked “urgent” telling her to go home at once. It was from one of the servants. She went by the next train and I telegraphed to know what was the matter, but could hear nothing till she returned. She found that the husband and wife had quarrelled desperately; that the man had packed up his box and that the woman had sworn she would not stay in the house. The language used was horrible. Molly patched up a kind of truce and came back to St. Leonards that evening. The belligerents are leaving and we will once more be in distress. I don’t think I shall try man and wife again. If they are both good they can always get higher wages than I can afford although I give £40 a year. I am delighted to hear Charlie in improving. Please tell him so.
Best love from us both
Affectionately
W.Hale White
(1) Possibly Hughes, Arthur (1832–1915), painter
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