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260 ANOTHER MAIL FROM MISS \RYE.
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XLI.— ANOTHER MAIL FEOM MISS RYE. W
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— The , following letter was written pri...
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I Pakis, May 18, 1863.
Henriette Brown lias disappointed the public by not exhibiting any of her works this year . Rosa Bonheur has in like manner
allowed her brother Auguste to rank as first among the animal painters . But a great number of female artists figure in the
catalogue , and will in all probability bear away as large _, a percentage of the prizes as they did in 1861 . _'
E . J .
260 Another Mail From Miss \Rye.
260 ANOTHER MAIL FROM MISS \ RYE .
Xli.— Another Mail Feom Miss Rye. W
XLI . — ANOTHER MAIL FEOM MISS RYE . W
— The , Following Letter Was Written Pri...
— The , following letter was written privately to an intimate friend of Miss Ryewhohoweverconsiders that it contains so much
interesting and , grap , hic information , , that , with slight omissions , she consents to allow it to be printed . Our readers are requested
to bear in mind that the original was hurriedly written , without any idea of print .
Dearest C Dunedin , Otago , 6 t 7 i March , 1863 . Though on , land I am still at seawantinouand yethow is it
that I can scarcely realise the almost imrneasureable , g y ; distance , there is between all that has us befallen —while I long by the so way much since to we lay parted my hand this in day yours five mont and h tell s ag you o ?
becaus Still , I e must of the confess work and , these the month women s . have You will t been of course a weary want time to know me , " all from in m the last beg that inning John , " as Duncan the children was r say eall —so a I fine may shi repeat —the what captain I told a
g y ood man , y , capital sailor , the weather all t y hat could be p desired ; indeed , wi a finer near passage ly all was the way never , and made no — rain cloudless worth skies naming , smoot until h water we were , and within fair
three weeks of our journey ' s end . We saw plenty of phosphorescent lightma calmed gellan at clouds the line —the twelve southern days cross during —two which fine time water the -spouts heat , and was were intense be- .
the By the log way that there " the was shi one laboured gale— , heavil I thoug " ht this it a . took storm- — lace and the ' twas first entered Sunday in
after starting , and as p we were beating y about ; for forty p -eight hours off * Start Pointnear the Lizardbe sure that we were sickanxiousand
, , you may , , dut frig y htened , and everything ; the sails were drenched reefed , dirty —dead , and lig hts isma in l — ; officers at last the and strong men all wind on
abated delighted , and with we went the blueness on our way of the rejoicing waters , scudding by day and away the before brilliancy the breeze of the , stars by night . That solitary Sunday was the only day in which Miss W
da and y , I I suffered fully believ from e , sea broug -sickness ht on the from whole imbibing time ; sherry and my and malad soda- y water was , that as a preventative . The poor girls were ill , very ill for a long time—three weeks them
at least—and we had really hard work to look after them and bring round behaved , especiall better and y the half b -starved far the Manchester most sterling women characters —who on by board the- shi way ,
The factory girls too were , who y came out by the Sarah _M—^— ( nineteen in p . number ) have , with two exceptions , all done admirably , and I had and quite clean a
it levy was of quite them pleasant the few to first look days at them after . landing So much —they for were sunny so memories rosy - —now ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/44/
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