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I hope you have Eugénie de Guérin. You are one of the people to like her especially and extremely, with her sweet religious, pastoral spirit and . . . devotion to her brother. I am exceedingly in love with her myself.
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My dear Mr Craik
I am rather anxious to know the upshot of the new arrangement which we were to have this year into the details of which I do not think we went.
What however is really important to me to know quickly is whether I am likely to receive enough at Christmas to warrant me in promising a payment of £250 - remembering that I have had £200 in advance
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Dear Mr Craik
Many thanks for your letter, I send the agreement, with which I am quite satisfied. I also send by train four nos of the Christian Remembrancer containing four papers
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