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Add Mss 412 Box 6 File 3
6th June
Dear Miss O’Reilly
Thank you so much for your letter yesterday. I was on the point of writing on account of that horrible accident to the train-car near your house. I dont know who was responsible for the telegram, but it was in all the London papers that O’Reilly had been drowned. I sent down at once to Mr. Forbes Vernon’s office, to find out about it, & left a not as he wasn’t in. I didn’t get a reply for several days as I think he was out of town but in the mean time saw a contraction had been sent to the newspaper. I was so glad to see it, as I had been feeling very unhappy about it and thinking of you all. How sorry I am for you & your disappointment at not coming to England, and we seem to be in for a fine warm summer. You must cheer up and live in hopes of it coming off next year. I had a very nice tour in Normandy, did Rouen, Caen, Bayeux, Constacess, St. Lo, Arranches where two of had spent our youth or a couple of years of it, and came back by St. Malo. It is [?] and churches all the time, but the history of the architecture are interesting if you are with people who can be interested in such things. I forgot the Mont St. Michel which we also did, & which was another reminiscence of my youth.
I have been down at Duchet[?] now for a week, & so glad to get out of London. How good of you to send me those lilies-of-the-valley [?] to remember my birthday. Many thanks for them [?] yacht [?], he will be home from China shortly. May movements are uncertain but I do not see any probability of my going in the direction of the Pacific. Please remember me to all your people, and believe me
Ever yours sincerely
Harry Stanhope
P.S. Why is it Captain Warrender, [?] Mr. Stanhope, are we not both in the same rank? You have never given me my promotion.
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