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Transcribed from the original in the British Library, Add. MS 40120, f. 231.
I should like to see you if you would but come. I should like mother to fetch me at
xmas. A young lady gave me a large doll, and another gave me some silk to make it more
clothes. Give my love and a kiss all round.
[Address:]
Mrs. Hone
Ludgate Hill
London