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Hotel Metropole July 8th 97 London

Mrs Timothy Hopkins

My dear friend

How your kind letter
glad[d]ened my
heart. it meant that
at home I was not for
gotten, the heart clings
so to loves ones and
more especially when
our loved ones are
among friends only.

I have felt more
lonely here than I ex-
pected, the City is so
teeming with humanity
it almost overpowers
one with its vastness