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my husband having changed
his name about a year ago.

I beg you will not trouble
to answer this letter, which
is merely the expression of
the sympathy of an
almost stranger!

Very sincerely yours

Alice Archer. Houblon

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Hallingbury Place
Bishop's Stortford
Herts.

June 30th 1893.

Dear Mrs Leyland [sic] Stanford

Perhaps you may not
recollect me, but I have
often thought of you and
your husband since we
met at Kissingen in 1888!
And now that I have
seen the announcement