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86. St James's St. 20th May 1857
My dear Aunt Emily,
I was very much pleased to get yr nice letter. I do not know yet when this will go, but I seize the present leisure to write it for as for I am told for some days to stay at home in order to get rid of an attack which drove me home from some abscess, after abscess, but I seem to have turned the corner now & am I hope getting well & fit for Mays Wedding, to think that she goes to India is awful, but to know that she goes with nice Phillip Egerton is pleasant and agreeable. I am losing a great companion, & 9 years of her life will have to be passed in India. Mother is very brave about it so Willie & I are obliged to be if she went with one we did not like it would indeed be hateful.
About yr factor, I pay Mr. Cunningham 100 a year, but then he is also Mr. Robertsons my Uncle's factor & Road Surveyor for a district in the County, & a bank agent for the Bank of Scotland, from
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