Boo,

Thank you for speaking to Mrs D. She has served us royally in the supply of names and addresses. I am sorry this note is so brief but my days are a blur of organisation at the moment.

In answer to your question about the Girl’s baby, yes he does have brown eyes like your own dear boy’s. Josiah says that brown eyes become a man and indeed they are what I first loved about him when he came to Hangerworth to ask for me. How long ago that seems!

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