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Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, discussing his meeting with Baillie's cousin, Mrs. Cunliffe; his impending trip to Wales; his visit to the Junior Water Colours and the British Institution; etc.
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charming person. I did not see her hus band. I was so amused by their all, I mean Mrs. Cunliffe, Miss Lyall and Mr. Alford, Talking of feeling in their bones, "why, they asked and"ing, etc. etc.
From the top of this page has been written at Pen-y-lan, Maen-twrog, Merionethshire, where I arrived last Monday, Aug ust 1st. I have had adventures. I was lost in storms of rain on the mount ains between Bala and Ffestiniog. It really happened what is the related in novels and allegories, "the dry beds of the morning were not turned into the channels of swollen torrents," etc. At last a river ran across the road and cut me off entirely. I took refuge in a shepherd's hut and slept amongst the Corinthians.