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1
found all
rt!(J
tlUldly well OIl IllY arrival.
We camB '0 Ipswich
directly an;!. epent
the
.,
mner there, 8Jtcept Il .hort visit to
the
Shoall .
DIl.rill8 all our trouble. I had the greatest .upport and eomfort in my
wife.
She never eompla1&fld and alwa,ye cheered
Ill1d
helped me .
It
wao all 80
oUf-
fennt from
.
ho.t
'
II'e ecpected when we were m&rrled
that
,
he
'
II'oula bave been
quite
justified in fin":'ill6 fa",lt, but. on the contrary,ehe
ahllll'
held
up
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all!.
not
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hal!
that
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M deserve • •
Elaie _. now e1gbt and a hal! and
Ja.::~
four ;;rear. old, both fine
hea1t.l:v children. In
the
lII.utuz;m of thie
ye~,
1876, '
II'e began to look round
for a place in :Boeton for the winter . I
am.
alwaye haviJlf: to go baek and
tdl
storle.
that
1
have omitted . This time
it
11
ho"
.
e
~.antI6ed
to have eomer
live on. When 1n China I had always
II.
habit of collecting curial , or objects .
of art, whenever I
had.
a chance, &.'"ld the 100t1Il,',!;
o~
the $Ul:Vll.er palace at
Pekin had .cattered
Iilan,Y
prett;)' WId valuable thinge broadcaet.
I
had
profHed by th18 ,
and
a.
it
happened
had
placed all
lit>'
pictures
and
work.
of
art
in Alice'.
ll8.Ia .
Susan Swett s·.J&>ested that
these
should be sold ,
and volunteered to
iNperln~end
the sal•• The roOl':ls at
the
hOUJIe were there_
fore opened and the snle took place tr.ere. There was a gUilt deal of
sym-
-",.
th;;
and ti.e sale realized ..
.
u:h
more than
"
e
expected.
I
thiIU: the
II1lID
was over
$50 , 000.
Beside thil , Ali::e OOd about
$24,000
of menllll' that
I
had
conveysd and invested for r.er since we were t:&rried. So we were not
enhrel.y
pellllll.n.
Unfortunately,
we lost
$10,000
the
first
year
by
rav
1
nveatillf;. toot amount in a mine at the "est. I 1Ias lnd·.l.Ced to do this by
the
representatione of ·r . Smith.
the
S81".8 man tl"At 1 alluded to in
speakill6 of
r:J;J
brother's retW'n from China.
:
t:othl~
1111.1
evu received
from this lnveetn.ent. Perhaps
the
ohildren aaay
gd
lomething. I do not
thln~
it _au ever properly teated. Tne trouble 11 that it would coet
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