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R. Plumer Ward XXII
Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 3 September 1841
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Charles Lamb I
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Thomas Campbell I
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Lady Blessington I
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R. Plumer Ward I
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R. Plumer Ward III
R. Plumer Ward IV
R. Plumer Ward V
R. Plumer Ward VI
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R. Plumer Ward VII
R. Plumer Ward VIII
R. Plumer Ward IX
R. Plumer Ward X
R. Plumer Ward XI
R. Plumer Ward XII
R. Plumer Ward XIII
R. Plumer Ward XIV
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“Brighton, Sept. 3, 1841.

“Dear Patmore,—Your letter has relieved me from no little anxiety on your account. * * * *

“I will certainly give you some days’ notice if we go to France. Upon this head, and indeed our whole position, I am really quite unhappy. The poor sufferer is rather worse than better, and but yesterday it was quite settled that we should embark next week for Dieppe, and thence by land to
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Pau. Warning was given to some of the servants, and I had the misery of thinking I should not see England for a twelvemonth—perhaps leave my bones abroad—at any rate, feel my whole plan of life broke up. To-day we have all taken fright at dragging a poor worn-out invalid six hundred miles through the dirty towns of France, and nothing is thought of but Torquay or Clifton.

“Meanwhile, the climate here and weather are of the very devil. I am burning with heat, pierced with cold, and most uneasy in mind—in short, anything but ‘mens sana in corpore sano’—which one ought to be to give sweet counsel to a friend.

“Still, wherever I am, or in whatever condition, yours, my dear P., very truly,

“R. P. W.”