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Braemarton
Eastbourne
June 13th 99 

My dearest friend,
How grateful I was for your little word received a few days since. I was beginning to feel, anxious lest you were in it was so long since I had heard a word from any of you, and I am still afraid that you have not been well, since you see nothing about it, and Alice too was reticent. But it is a comfort to think of you in the country at last, and in your own home. I dont see how Ella can make up her mind to leave, for it is just what Annie wanted, so she, I trust will be happy this summer. And I do hope my dear friend, that 

for we keep such late hours at night. I cant get up before half past six. I have not taken long rides, for it is a little dreary to go off by ones self in a strange land, and requires so much attention not to lose my way. I have had one pleasant ride with a lady & her little daughters, and shall join them again some day. And one day last week, Henry and I took a delightful walk in the woods, going first by tram a few miles out from here. I longed for someone to name the birds whose delicious songs filled the woods The red poppies now are beginning to bloom along the road sides, and immense fields of mustard gleam like sunshine in the broad landscape. But the things that charm me most here are