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Page 97
Your letter tells me you remain at Oxford till the 22nd of this month , from the
agreeable necessity of being elected fellow at that time . I hoped it would have
been in my power to have invited you immediately on your accession to your new
...
Your letter tells me you remain at Oxford till the 22nd of this month , from the
agreeable necessity of being elected fellow at that time . I hoped it would have
been in my power to have invited you immediately on your accession to your new
...
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grandfather . Would I could say something equally satisfactory about your return .
But alas ! my father has put off his journey into Wales without fixing any time , but
at soonest , it is not likely to be before the middle of next month ; so that it would ...
grandfather . Would I could say something equally satisfactory about your return .
But alas ! my father has put off his journey into Wales without fixing any time , but
at soonest , it is not likely to be before the middle of next month ; so that it would ...
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We have no other engagement , and if you can come to us any other time before
the end of the month , pray do . Might you not all as well spend the next month
here as at Cheltenham ? I hope you will take care not to fatigue yourself so much
...
We have no other engagement , and if you can come to us any other time before
the end of the month , pray do . Might you not all as well spend the next month
here as at Cheltenham ? I hope you will take care not to fatigue yourself so much
...
Page 260
Shortly after the date of the preceding letter my mother , with some members of
their family , joined him in London . But in a very few days he must have suffered
a relapse , for on the 20th of the next month I find he had removed to Brompton ...
Shortly after the date of the preceding letter my mother , with some members of
their family , joined him in London . But in a very few days he must have suffered
a relapse , for on the 20th of the next month I find he had removed to Brompton ...
Page 261
DEAR FATHER , I did not receive your letter of the 27th of last month till the first of
this , and am much obliged to you for it . You are quite right in supposing that
Jane and myself wish to keep within the bounds of our income . A step which I
have ...
DEAR FATHER , I did not receive your letter of the 27th of last month till the first of
this , and am much obliged to you for it . You are quite right in supposing that
Jane and myself wish to keep within the bounds of our income . A step which I
have ...
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| Title | Works, Volume 1 Works, Henry Francis Cary |
| Editor | Henry Francis Cary |
| Publisher | H. G. Bohn, 1847 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2006 |
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