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Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
St Stephen's day [26 December] 1884
My dear Lord Bishop
A great many thanks for the poem. I will mark the MS so that the printers should send the proof to you I hope early in January. The story is very touching as you have made it. I wonder how many such tragedies there are going on, unknown.
I shall always be grateful to it for having brought me your Christmas blessing
With kind regards to Mrs and Miss How.
yours respectfully
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My dear Lizzie
Thank you for your kind letter. This is the dear Mrs. Gibbs's burial day, and I have been prevented from keeping it properly by Mr. Brock suddenly knocking up this morning with neuralgia and sick headache. If it had only begun yesterday he would have got help on such a great Saint's day; but that is not to the purpose. We knew what was coming for nearly a month; ... continue reading