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[Page 55]

Camden
17th Augt 1855

My dear Wm
    
We had your last welcome letters dated the 8th April from London about three weeks since. You were then just starting for Paris & we are looking for the next Mail which is now due to tell us that you are well advanced in your labours at the Exposition. Any of your "sayings & doings" must be interesting to us - at the same time there was a charm to me in your first letters, so full of Bromley Common & its dear inmates -  that is better imagined than explained in writing - I thank you much for the various notes [Continued on Page 56]

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Matters go on very quietly here & Dawson seems to manage the men very well. Querke plays the minor part. Old Chapman contrived to break collar bone & ribs in a drunken fit & has been laid up for some time. The dairy continues to pay well - We have got a Drummond's Patent Churn - & hope
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