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Page 36
... mind and frequently I feel as though I must throw away my pen , though I have much , very much I would tell you , nay , more than my poor weak spirits will enable me to recite . However , as I am enabled strength of body ( I trust I ...
... mind and frequently I feel as though I must throw away my pen , though I have much , very much I would tell you , nay , more than my poor weak spirits will enable me to recite . However , as I am enabled strength of body ( I trust I ...
Page 38
... mind will not hold steady . She tries to write enthusiastically about the splendour of the setting sun , but half way through the sentence , her mind is back on death again and she has introduced ' the sad tolling of a bell ' into the ...
... mind will not hold steady . She tries to write enthusiastically about the splendour of the setting sun , but half way through the sentence , her mind is back on death again and she has introduced ' the sad tolling of a bell ' into the ...
Page 187
... mind toward fortune and the future , those two things as enwined now as they had been upon her arrival more than a decade before . Her last surviving letter is not to the family in England , but to her husband George . There is a second ...
... mind toward fortune and the future , those two things as enwined now as they had been upon her arrival more than a decade before . Her last surviving letter is not to the family in England , but to her husband George . There is a second ...
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Anna Cook and Ellen Moger | 19 |
Louisa Clifton | 39 |
Annie Baxter | 86 |
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