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promotion - Of ourselves I have not much to tell - we have had very hot, & really chilly weather this summer. I never knew a season of greater variation of temperature. The Country looks beautifully green. The peaches are not generally first rate owing to the want of good thinning. I have been afraid of Blake's temper - for one day last year I asked him to thin a very overloaded pear tree & he left ridiculously few on the boughs, sometimes only one which grew to an immense size & quite Coarse

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William our love & I am
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[indeciplerable] Ex is a good honest straight forward man - rather too little dignified - there came on a shower while we were inspecting the College buildings (which bye the bye promise to be very handsome) when I [Indecipherable] 

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