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'' | <p> Desolation Bay <sic>Sept.<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></sic> 9<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> 1890</p> <p> <sic>D<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></sic> Dick</p> <p> I have been Considering this half hour, <lb/>for a Name proposed to give our Habitation & I <lb/> assure you I <sic>can't</sic> think of a fitter than Desolation<lb/> Bay. paint in your imagination a <sic>Stoney</sic> Beach of <lb/> 50 or 60 Miles Covered with Drift Wood, and the <lb/> prospect ending with Mountains covered with Everlasting<lb/> Snow, a parcel of old Houses, a half Starved<lb/> Wood and four poor Solitary Englishmen, Cursing<lb/> their Hard fate; you will have a just picture of <lb/> our House and Domain, I assure you I never Lived<lb/>So Lonesome in my Life, and I heartily Wish I was <lb/> once more <sic>hawling</sic> of Ropes in Old England, and <lb/> getting my Bread with the Sweat of my Brow — <lb/> I have been for this Week past Living the Woods <sic>till</sic> <lb/> I am almost froze to Death, for here <sic> tho'</sic> but the <lb/> Beginning of <sic>Sept.<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></sic> yet all Standing Waters are <lb/> already Froze; and as I have no warm <sic>Cloaths</sic><lb/> Living in a Tent at present is very disagreeable: <lb/> Indeed I shall be forced to Live here the Winter<lb/> without a <unclear>Tube</unclear>, for I cannot buy the Commonest<lb/> for Les than 40 or 50 <sic>Rubles,</sic> which is a Sum<lb/> I can but ill spare at present, to mend </p> | ||
Desolation Bay Sept.r 9th 1890
Dr Dick
I have been Considering this half hour,
for a Name proposed to give our Habitation & I
assure you I can't think of a fitter than Desolation
Bay. paint in your imagination a Stoney Beach of
50 or 60 Miles Covered with Drift Wood, and the
prospect ending with Mountains covered with Everlasting
Snow, a parcel of old Houses, a half Starved
Wood and four poor Solitary Englishmen, Cursing
their Hard fate; you will have a just picture of
our House and Domain, I assure you I never Lived
So Lonesome in my Life, and I heartily Wish I was
once more hawling of Ropes in Old England, and
getting my Bread with the Sweat of my Brow —
I have been for this Week past Living the Woods till
I am almost froze to Death, for here tho' but the
Beginning of Sept.r yet all Standing Waters are
already Froze; and as I have no warm Cloaths
Living in a Tent at present is very disagreeable:
Indeed I shall be forced to Live here the Winter
without a Tube, for I cannot buy the Commonest
for Les than 40 or 50 Rubles, which is a Sum
I can but ill spare at present, to mend
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Identifier: | JB/541/168/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541. |
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