this. God bless the little girl to whom he is going to take it, and her little sister. Do you know their names and that their papa loves them?
[ 1841.]
Though I have not written to my dearest Nanny, since I came away, I think about her many times; and pray God for her and Baby and to make them both well and good. You will be well I hope in the spring when we will take a house by the seaside, and you can go into the fields and pick flowers, as you used to do at Margate; before Mamma was ill and when Baby was only a little child in arms. Please God, Mamma will be made well one day too. How glad I shall be to see all my darlings well again: and there is somebody else who wants to see them again too and that is Brodie who longs to come back to them.
I have been to see your God-mamma who gave you the red shoes but she is very very ill.
The other night as I was coming home I met in the street two little girls, and what do you think they were doing? Although one was no bigger than you, and the other not so big as Baby, they were singing little songs in the street, in hopes that someone would give them money: they said their mother was at home--that is the elder one said so, (the younger one was so little that she could not speak plain, only sing) their mother was ill at home with three more children and they had no bread to eat!
So I thought of my two dear little girls, and how comfortable they were and how their Granny gave them good meals, and their Grand-mamma a nice house to live in; and I brought the little girls to Mr. Hill, the baker in Coram Street, and gave them a loaf and some money, and hope soon to give them some
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