1 Dear Edward
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3 Please send this to Bob Muirhead. I didn’t see him to say good bye &
4so didn’t thank him. I thought I should see him again.
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6 It is a lovely day here, one almost sees the sky over the houses.
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8 I wonder how it goes with you at Mill-thorp. I never like to ask you
9because I’m always afraid of touching you roughly when I mean to be
10quite ^so very^ gentle. I have got my full marching orders for Africa
11now. I wonder if you will get yours.
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13 I wish we could have spent a day up the river together, you & he & I:
14it would have been so perfect to have you both: One never hardly loves
15two human beings who love each other.
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17 Good bye. I hope it goes well. I’ll send you a nice savage book soon.
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19 Olive
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21 Life is full of compensations. When the desire of the soul is taken
22from us she gives us calm.
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24 You don’t know how beautiful it was with Bob here. Perhaps Bob
25himself less than anyone could understand. I don’t myself. He seems
26to me to be a bond between me & other human beings.
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