10-12AUG14 to Anna: I am quite ashamed to find that I have never answered some questions of yours in a former note. - I kept the note on purpose to refer to it at a proper time, & then forgot it.
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Garden of England - Kent Katılım Nisan 2013
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29Jul17CEA to FK: Never was human being more sincerely mourned by those who attended her remains than was this dear creature. May the sorrow with which she is parted from on earth be a prognostic of the joy with which she is hailed in Heaven!
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29JUL17 from CEA to Fanny Knight: I have just read your letter for the third time & thank you most sincerely for every kind expression to myself & still more warmly for your praises of her who I believe was better known to you than to any human being besides myself.
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26JUL09 to Frank: My dearest Frank, I wish you Joy of Mary's safety with a boy, Whose birth has given little pain, Compared with that of Mary Jane. - May he a growing Blessing prove, and well deserve his Parents Love!
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20JUL17:from CEA to Fanny: My dearest Fanny - doubly dear to me now for her dear sake whom we have lost. She did love you most sincerely, & never shall I forget the proofs of love you gave her during her illness in writing those kind, amusing letters ......
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?mid-July14 to Anna: I am pretty well in health and work a good deal in the Garden, but for these last 3 or 4 weeks have had weakness in my Eyes
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9JUL16: [The Weather] is really too bad & has been too bad for a long time, much worse than anybody can bear, and I begin to think it will never be fine again.
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30JUN-1JUL08:Lady E Hatton called here a few mornings ago, her Daughter Elizth with her, who says as little as ever, but holds up her head & smiles & is to be at the Races
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30JUN08: What cold, disagreable weather, ever since Sunday! - I dare say you have Fires every day. My kerseymere Spencer is quite the comfort of our Eveng walks.
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23JUN14:This Post has brought me a Letter from Miss Sharpe. Poor thing! she has been suffering indeed! but is now in a comparative state of comfort. She is at Sir W.P's, in Yorkshire, with the Children, & there is no appearance of her quitting them.
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26JUN08:In the mean while, let me remember that I have now some money to spare, & that I wish to have my name put down as a subscriber to Mr Jefferson's works.
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THURS23JUN: Only think of the Marquis of Granby being dead. I hope, if it please Heaven there should be another Son, they will have better Sponsors & less Parade.
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Tenor Jonathan Tetelman unexpectedly starts singing the renowned aria from Turandot while seated with his wife at the Zimt & Zucker café in Berlin.
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I can't knit worth a bean, but suddenly I feel compelled to fly to England and learn how @ChawtonHouse!
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Our lovely Volunteer Maggie is hosting a drop-in beginner's knitting workshop on Wednesday 26th June at 10am-12pm. She will cover basic stitches, how to cast on and off, how to follow a pattern and how to knit a basic cable stitch! Admission included in House & Gardens Ticket.
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23JUN14: Henry at Whites! - Oh what a Henry. - I do not know what to wish as to Miss B, so I will hold my tongue & my wishes
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14JUN14: This is a delightful day in the Country, & I hope not much too hot for Town. - Well, you had a good Journey I trust & all that;- & not rain enough to spoil your Bonnet.
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14JUN14: [The Cookes] will meet me at Guildford. - In addition to their standing claims on me, they admire Mansfield Park exceedingly. Mr Cooke says "It is the most sensible Novel he ever read" and the manner in which I treat the Clergy, delights them very much.
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15JUN08: Where shall I begin? Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first? At half after seven yesterday morning Henry saw us into our own carriage, and we drove away from the Bath Hotel: which, by the bye, had been found most uncomfortable quarters.
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