State Library of NSW
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Bromley Common 21st Novr 1876.
My dearest Son
I have been waiting with impatience for your letter and yesterday it arrived - dearest Son - I do indeed long to be with you - but we must not think of this happening, as it is denied us, & only try to comfort ourselves in the thought that we can write & tell our feelings to each other, tho' so very far apart. I am very thankful to be able to hear from you & to write to you - I can understand your loneliness in having no one quite to sympathize with you or who can quite enter into your own peculiar feelings for your child & all the misery- then it makes you turn to the [ ] & Father, who is not in this world, but who is always with
[Continued top of page] Goodbye darling with [indecipherable] [SN?] [Added in pencil] - (Mrs G. Norman)
[The Norman family were related to Emily Macarthur - née Stone]
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