Critters, Crackers and Cottages
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"Now about the expenses, etc. that seems to be troubling my love's mind. Just rest easy, I have made the calculations all along and would not have proposed building now if it was not safe, I am sorry I wrote you that despondent letter, for I was only temporarily so and had not enough data of the business in my mind, in a word its all right now. The $5000 I put aside last summer for your house and its furniture is entirely independent of the business. I think I wrote you in last week's letter the cost of the house... " - Excerpt from a Letter, Arthur William Catesby Smyth to Beatrice Alice Smyth dated March 18 & March 26, 1893, Orlando
