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big even to me here]. I should have a room in Maud's cottage for a studio, and [[May?]] and I would lodge nearby and live for about -- $3.75 a week.  I'm afraid it will give all you dear ones a pang to be put off even this much longer, and it gives me an awfully sharp one too, nothing else would have made me think of stopping longer, and of course I shall not be bound but Could leave at any time if I hear from home that you think I ought to sail the time I intended about the middle of July. If it stops raining and we start on our drive tomorrow I shall get back to Paris the 14th and should not stay there later than the 22nd then to London and down to

by night]will be from Paris - and I hope to get some letters at Canterbury  Your Sister

  Down Kent [1889]
  Monday - June
[[strikethrough]]NEWNHAM GRANGE,
CAMBRIDGE [[strikethrough]]
Rain, rain, rain - making all the beautiful trees more beautiful, and the grass richer, but we hope it won't keep us from our drive tomorrow. It is after nine AM and I am in the drawing room waiting for the others to come down to breakfast. We shant do anything all day but write letters, and read Not a sound to be heard, but the rain not a person is visible from the windows, not a wagon nor horse, not anything, but beautiful trees grass - fields and hedges. I don't know whether May will send you my letter to her or not -- so I'll have to tell all I told her over again. We came here on Saturday. Two children and three servants

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