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it imposssible to obtain private
teaching in consequence of
the numerous conservatoires
and my acquaintances
have not the power to aid
me - I am now quite recovered
in health and if some tried
friend would help me to take
a ten roomed house and
furnish it I could let furnished
apartments in one of the
refined watering places --

I am thoroughly capable
and energetic and a
total abstainer and
early riser - I am also
a composer of songs
and my first buplished
song (Eternal Spring) is
copyrighted in America
(Novello [?] Emer & Coy:
New York) the song

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80 Netherwood Road
Sheperd's Bush
London W
14 Dec.r 01

Madame

Will you permit
me to offer you my most
profound apology for
addressing you.

I am the widow of
a Surgeon - and daughter
of the late Mr John Sinclair
of the British Linen
Cos: Bank Edinburgh
My husband died three
years after our marriage
and a few years ago I