London 11th July 1834
Dear Miss Rawson

I ought before to have thanked you
for your very pretty little volume. I [?]
the poor part I took in its production had
flitted away from my mind and memory
but it is very delightful to find that
minds and memories better than mine
have been occupied with topics which (to
my shame be it spoken) I had almost forgotten
the topics? -- No[?] -- but my small participation
in labours so generous? devoted and useful
as yours.

 

Mrs. Bowring is engaged in the most pain-
ful and percmptory of duties -- She is closing
the eyes of her dying mother -- otherwise I am
sure she would have charged me with a
mission of kind remembrances

Most faithfully and ever yours
John Bowring

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London July eleven 1834[?]
Miss M. A. Rawson
Wincobank Hall
Sheffield
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