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Ann May to Priscilla May 23 Oct 1830
Ampthill 10th Mo 23rd
My dear P.
What a length of time we seem to have been parted without hearing a syllable of each other but I endeavour to take it for granted that thou art well & enjoying thyself under such excellent care & that possibly thy good uncle is devising some means to recover thy hearing which would greatly add to our former obligations -
I have had a quiet time of it lately with the parlour to myself in a general way but last evening H.Coleby brought her work she has had the bustle of packing to herself John being at Reading on account of his mother's dangerous illness he went last first day, not expecting to see her living having been seized with bleeding at the nose almost to strangulation from the bursting of a vessel in the head - she lies in a deplorable state with wetted cloths on her bare head blisters behind the ears & the nose plugged -
R.Ransom came this afternoon - Nancy & I walked to Houghton yesterday morning none of the family seem to recover their spirits yet-
But I hasten to tell thee of Sarah's proceedings that she did not disappoint Holloman last first day her brother & Ann joined them shortly after eight they drank tea with M.Taylor at Joseph Sharples's & took Lewis there he as well as Charles & James C. have had colds yet seemed pretty well, the married pair returned in the trade gig on 2nd day lodged at M.Carte's their house not being ready so next day they hired another (next door to Thomas Haines) bundled in their furniture & lodged there that night how Sarah will like being a poor woman I don't know but she does not look very enviable.
Poor Mrs Tiso got settled in at her sister Evans's on 2nd day, I called upon her on 4th she was lying in the best chamber quite in style but very ill -
We held our A.L.Society Meeting on 5th day a small attendance, agreed to reduce the benefit 1p -
Charles's two jail birds are liberated so, last 5th day was a high day with the Mantons, owing to unfair dealing on the part of J.Green &c. Charles Alfred Stevens & several of the men were hindered most of two days, I wish it may give C. a surfeit of law.
Charlotte came the day you left & so far is all I desire in a housemaid we are much pleased with her -
All over the way seem well & here except my right hand which gets no better altho' for its benefit I lower my diet & have a mess for supper, sometimes I think nothing will cure it short of Bath or Buxton so I must endure it.
It seems doubtful whether thou wilt see thy father, but he will perhaps be at G.S.[Gracechurch St] Meeting on 4th day we intend going to Baldock M.M. on 2nd he to town by coach from there.
J.Wise was rather expected this evening he & Hannah were to have bid adieu to Ampthill next week - but it must be subject to the situation of his poor mother.
E.Wheeler engages to make her visit here next week -D.Pearman brought me a letter from Debby stating her wish to be fetched in about a week - We left off a fire yesterday & this morning, but now the air is cooler -
E.Beck's coming is not quite decided but probability rather favours it -
Edward [E.Strange] was my driver to Cranfield last 2nd day to call at D.Grimes's little James G. is gone upon trial to John Hempson's -
What a rough & abrupt sketch of passing events is the foregoing, yet do send me such an one of the course of things with you whether Emily & thee read together or draw or walk what where & so forth - I am grieved to hear by Caroline's letter to Nancy that her Eliza has been ill, also that thy Aunt M.Curtis is so with a liver complaint.
Farewell as it is bedtime - with dear love to thy dear uncle & aunt & to Emily & thyself I am
Thy very affectionate Mother
1st day evening.
P.S. J.Wise came home this evening his mother was much the same.
Priscilla May Oblig'd by S.May
Kennington
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23 Oct 1830
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