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He hoped to be well enough to speak at an important political meeting at Ashborough about the middle of October, and as Ashborough was not far from Oakdene, Donovan wrote to propose a visit there en route. At length the last evening came. Raeburn and Erica climbed Rocksbury for the last time, and in the cool of the evening walked slowly home. "I have always dreaded old age," he said.
Its contents had evidently been the subject of very serious consideration, before he wrote: SON WOODBRIDGE: On your last going from Rocksbury, I thought you would have returned again before your departure hence, and therefore neither bade you farewell, nor sent any remembrance to your wife.
The Lord direct and bless you, your wife and children, whom I would fain see, and have again some thoughts of it, if I live till next summer. Your very loving father, THOMAS DUDLEY. Rocksbury, November 28, 1642. To my very loving son, Mr. John Woodbridge, at his house in Newbury.
Erica learned to love every inch of that lovely neighborhood, from the hill of Rocksbury with its fir-clad heights, to Trencharn Lake nestled down among the surrounding heath hills. In after years she liked to recall all those peaceful days, days when time had ceased to exist at any rate, as an element of friction in life.
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