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OR2307/1b
Title
Letter from Catherine Charlotte Rouse-Boughton, Larden Hall, Much Wenlock to Frederica returned list of Acton Scott books, copied for Charley I am truly sorry for all the necessities of you going from Hinwick, but I cannot but think that it is such a white elephant, running away insidiously with so much, in necessary wages and food to servants etc.
Date free text
16 February 1881
Production date
From: 1881 To: 1881
Scope and Content
(however few you strive to make do) that in lodging life you will feel a freedom from care and a certainty that you are saving. Catherine’s present of mourning veil for Mrs Acton Frances packed things left to them by Mrs Acton. Frances ‘looks very ill but is not moping, which is a great relief to me’
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