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I PINE FOR YOU

SO MUCH THAT I AM NEARLY LOVE-

SICK I DREAM THAT I AM KISSING YOUR BEAUTIFUL

NAKED BODY TOUCHING YOUR LOVELY

SMALL BREASTS

THE LOVELIEST

THAT EXIST IN

THE WORLD B AND F

London 7^th Jan. 08

My devoted little Engel

Well many thanks for your letter which I

only received today – I had just last night

sent a card to you – I have been in a

state of despair because I have not hear from you

or anyone from the vicarage. When I was supposed to

be studying at the galleries here in recent days I could

only think of you and could not keep my

thoughts on anything else and at

night when I awoke and remembered that

I was lying here in London the thoughts returned

and I began to grow afraid that

you had suffered some accident and father and the others

there at home were reluctant to write to me

about it straightaway, then I also received a letter from

Peter and that made me even more anxious

as he wrote that he had not heard from

the vicarage either. So I lay there

dreaming frightening dreams. I dreamt that

and when I arrived home [it turned out] I had received the

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