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-invitation' to Woodbridge. In one sense i

distressed at their proposing to do so. If they take me in their way to,

hs in the Summer: and, when they are not there, for any Friends who like to come, for the Benefit of fresh Air and Verdure, plus the company of their Host.

for my sake, who ought rather to go and ask Admission at your Door, I shoul

means with her elder Sister, who is her Guardian Angel. I am sure that no friend of mine-and least of all you-would dissent from my making them my first consideration. I never ask them in Winter, when I think they a

ng than I to these parts; but I and my House would be very glad to entertain you to our bes

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t you will-if only to revisit those at Kenilworth-yes, and the blind Lady you are soon going to see in I

m Ruskin, which had been entrusted to another American Gentleman named Burne Jones-who kept it in a Desk ten years, and at last forwarded it as aforesaid-to me! The Note (of Ruskin's) is about one of the Persian

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