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(Down 83)

Sunday

My dear George

I was rejoiced to hear your good acct of yourself & that you are able to work well — How glad I shall be if your state of health takes an upward turn —

Wm came on Friday night; but I was in bed yesterday, & am got pretty right today —

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He has been preaching about money to Frank who is really too foolish — I wonder if he has realized that leaving £1500 for years uninvested is about £50 a year loss —

He promises that he will be wiser — Wm is for me to let Fr build his own house as he thinks he will look a little after the money in that case. Ellen somehow was

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more shy at becoming known to Wm but she is grown comf. now. I let her know that you had called on her & she said it was v. kind of you — William is r. disturbed at there being so little of her (bodily I mean) At F. drove off yesterday all the way to Abinger 33 miles. Her strength for driving & talking is wonderful. Fr & Ellen & Bessy took Bernard to the old climbing tree

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in Holwood Park on Friday— Eau de Nil safely recd ─ There is a curious paper on thought reading in the Spec—

That tiresome boy Frank has not told Bernard yet [insertion:] (of his engagement to Ellen Crofts); & I cant make him do so — We have had very nice warm weather for a week — I am going to write to Ida — so you need not pass on this.

Goodbye my dearly E D