Volume 64: Emily Macarthur [Mrs. James Macarthur] correspondence and other papers, 1838-1879: No. 285

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page 285

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

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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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