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Literary Imagination Advance Access originally published online on July 14, 2008
Literary Imagination 2008 10(3):317-328; doi:10.1093/litimag/imn048
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"This Strangest of Countries": Letters

Alice Hiller

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National Library of Scotland

Mrs George Combe [Cecilia]

Charlotte Square

Edinburgh

[Dated by CC Philadelphia 8 November 1835]

MS 7235 ff116-6

                Sunday

                November 8th

My dear Cecy - on my return home after a month's absence I found among several letters waiting for me your very welcome one. I should be glad if you would not merely send your hand writing across the Atlantic when what you call an "opportunity" occurs - but wish you would occasionally embrace those very frequent & regular opportunities the packet ships - however perhaps you are too busy or perhaps you are not inclined to write to me oftener - letters from you or your husband are most welcome whenever they do come that is all. My husband and my child1 and myself are all well - the second being at this moment busily engaged in a game of rowings with her nurse to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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