WCP3125

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3 Victoria Street SW

28^th Feb^r [1889]¹

Dear Mrs. Wallace²

How very kind of you to send me those lovely snowdrops! They are so much more beautiful than the double ones, every flower I get makes me long more & more to be back in my garden in Gloucestershire it is so lovely I wish you [2] & Mr Wallace would come & pay me a visit someday when he comes back. you might come & meet him there! it is only a little out of the way –

If you are leaving Godalming you might find a nice new home close by, some hundred years old & and absolutely cheap — like mine. In the most perfect country. with neighbours [3] who do as their fathers did, & are contented.

I hope to be there later by Easter week & not return here till winter comes again.

ever yours truly | Marianne North³ | [signature]

Miss Owen⁴ is at Mrs. Fenn,⁴ Marlboro’ Street – or she would send her love[.]

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