Letter to Alice Hepworth
1886-01-08

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10 South St.
January 8/86
Dear Alice Hepworth
I am very sorry not to see
you before you go back to
Lea. But the snow & the
frost made the streets really too bad
for Mrs. Luthington & me to
wish you to come out so far.
I wish you a good New
Year & happy New Year
& many of them, to do good
Service.
And I give you joy that
you have brought the infants
on so satisfactorily &
enabled them to take such
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a good place in both
Examinations.
And we all of us thank
you - you & Mr. Butler.
I should like to have
heard from you about all
your Infants & all your
classes, & to have asked
you what they did, if I
could have seen you.
Will you be so good as to
take these two parcels of
books with you -
one for Mr. Butler for the
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Holloway Institute -
& one which perhaps he
will be so good as to send
to Mr. Peacock
Whatstandwell Coffee-rooms
(for the Whatstandwell Library)
Or perhaps if you get out at
Whatstandwell Station,
you might leave it there
to be sent to him (Mr. Peacock)
But don't hurry yourself to
do this, if perhaps the
train hardly stops at
Whatstandwell Station -
& you get out at Cromford.
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And will you be so good
as to tell me what book
you would like yourself,
which I should have asked
you had I seen you.
God bless you.
And with my kind regards
to Mr. Hepworth.
believe me yours most sincerely
F. Nightingale
I am obliged
to write in pencil