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LIB/LE/MC/3
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LIB/LE/MC/3
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Letter: Maud Caffin to Lilian Tomlin 29 October 1894
1894
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Dated: '6-30 Sunday morning ...'. - Refers to having seen Ellen Terry a great deal since her last letter of which this one is miore or less a continuation. - 'I will get you taken on at the Comedy. The Carrs [J. Comyns Carr] are very particular always to have nice refined girls there they are all ladies. They get well paid & have very easy work. Tell me when you are ready to come & then you can come & live with me, only we shd never see each other I should be out all day & you all night // Then you wd come to Miss Nettlships to have lovely dresses made you. You'ld become such friends with Miss Emery. Why should 'nt you come Lil? Is there anything that makes it necessary for you to be at home? You have no idea the glories of an independent life being able to make & walk in yr own path in life instead of timidly following every body else - / I went to "Charlie's Aunt" the other night with friends, Oh dear, how I ached with laughting it is funny - have you seen it? ... 'Love to yr Mother and Clar [=Claribel]. I hear she wants cigs. I will send her what few I have ...
In envelope addressed: 'Miss Tomlin / Thorpe Villa / Chester'. - Post-stamped: 'Chester OC 29 / 94'; inscribed on verso: 'Answered. Nov. 2.94'.