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My dear Caroline I find mamma is answering your questions and leaving me to tell you what I know you will wish to hear about our loss. I do so wish you could have seen our dear little William, with his large dark, soft eyes, and his merry smile, he was such an unusually intelligent and pretty creature, I suppose too much so, as if marked from the first for a brighter home. Somehow I ... continue reading
July 9th 1877
My dear Christabel
I am very sorry this sad check has fallen on all the bright hopes. I remember Mrs Keble saying, when my brother lost his first, how often it happens that the first fruits of a family are thus consecrated and taken, and become in time a happy remembrance.
May has been hoping that Minny’s baby may come today on its great grandfather’s birthday, I wonder if it will. Poor Katie Lloyd is at Ramsgate, ... continue reading