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Barnsley – Kent
17 Sept 1860

Dear Jas Macarthur

I thank you for
your letter of the 8th & am
glad that you have
been enjoying yourselves
& had an opportunity
of seeing the Flowers &
Festivities –

It was of course quite
impossible for us to be
there, but the Dutchess [Duchess]
who never forgets a
little civility which we
were enabled to share
here in her girlish days
was kind enough to
invite us –

We found fine Weather