Volume 58: Sir George Macleay correspondence, 1848-1880: No. 316

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[Page 316]

will see that I had to add £2 to your £10 to clear the whole 4 boxes.  I will try & get some aquatics [indecipherable] in these last two.  The drying has been done in my stoves & by my man & of course not charged for.  And now [indecipherable] done to these matters I am truly concerned dear good old Friend, to hear what you say of the effects of your accident.  I cannot imagine so able and active a man like you crippled.  I mean I cannot realise the idea, nor can I understand the cool philosophical way in which you take it.  It makes me sad to hear of it, how very said it would make me to see it.  Do you know that I had a dream of seeing you here, and another dream of going about with

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