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(Jan. 13. 82)

DOWN,

BECKENHAM, KENT

RAILWAY STATION

ORPINGTON. S.E.R.

Friday

My dear George

I was very glad to get your letter & now the end is so near I don't expect you will knock up ─ I look upon Jamaica as certain, & as there is no yellow fever there, you can't hear any thing bad about it ─

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Leslie Stephen writes about Mr Graham, & I don't think he has very much chance ─ He speaks of the noise the tramps made on Sunday [insertion:] (the Sunday Tramps – a walking club founded by Leslie Stephen) tramps made on Sunday as very striking, & does not say that any of them were ill after their et walk ─ Mrs Dickie Ruck knows about these wicked Morewood. The eldest brother whom they 1/2 killed is sane & good ─ & wickedness from Lord Byron family ─ his mother I suppose. Talking of inheritance Mrs Sam Ashburner's brother has just killed himself, the 3rd brother who has done so ─ It is terrible for the family ─ They must also feel doomed ─

Bessy is spending a few days with Mrs Ogle ─ whom she likes E Wm says "What a capital letter of G. in Nature" ─

Goodbye my dear old man.

E. D.

I wonder when you will come again ─