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SD2106.  Mary Altham Cook to William Surtees Cook

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 266 (in part).

[London]

[Postmark: 11 September 1857]

My dearest Papa.

Dearest Grandma is not here because she has a cold. aunt Boo & I are so sorry to as we were getting her room ready. Aunt boo & I went yesterday [to] Kensington garden & we heard some children sing & they sang very nicely there[.] How are Mama & Altham & baby[?] Kiss them for me.

Your own

Mary

Address: Capt Surtees Cook / Wilton / Taunton / Somerset.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Altham Archive.

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