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14 Denmark St
Gateshead on Tyne
Dec'r 12^th 1877

My dear friend,

The last month of this year 1874, is fast advancing, & Xmas will soon be here again: a time that I know you like to spend by your own fireside—where I wish this friendly greeting to await you—It seems so long since we heard from one another dear Frederick, so long! Yet you are not forgotten, I can assure you—Twenty years this Xmas,
(viz: that of 1854) is the last I spent on "the Hill"—that dear, old hill I was so fond of—How I see it all