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YEAR 1824
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Letter 1
TO A FORMER FELLOW BOARDER
Thanks and expressions of friendship.
Dearly beloved Friend,
Words fail me as I try to describe to you how my heart
leaped for joy when your kind letter was handed to me, all the
more so because in it I see traced out the characteristic
features of friendship. It is a friendship that is genuine and
true, and as such it cannot be wiped out though the persons it
links together are physically apart and far from each other.
I have fond memories of you, my dear friend, and of all
my fellow boarders you are certainly the one I remember best.
It makes me very happy to know that by God’s grace you are
keeping well. Same with me.
Perhaps you think that by now I am back in the big, wide
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world; by God’s special favour I am still in this happy Retreat
1 St Clare’s Convent, where she was a boarder from Autumn 1818 to July
1822. She stayed back as an Approved Teacher till 18 July 1824.
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