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My dear Anne It is enough to frighten one to see all one’s words taken so seriously, not that I did not really mean them, but perhaps I spoke more freely from not thinking you would attach so much weight to what so young and so flyaway a person might say. However it is quite right to feel that words have weight. I think I must begin from henceforth to assure you that you ... continue reading
Dear Madam,
I waited to thank you for the kind manner in which you answered my last note, until I could send you the proofs for the present month. I think the St Patrick division a particularly interesting one, and take great delight in the Star of Bethlehem. I have taken out the S in the name of the poet Wither, as I believe it has no right there. I know several of his descendants who ... continue reading