Reference
HW87/442
Title
Letter: Richard How (Aspley) to J. H. Hansen.
Date free text
14 June 1791
Production date
From: 1791 To: 1791
Scope and Content
Eldest son is at home : his disposition was to study & retirement. The 2nd is gone by his own choice as doctor & surgeon in an East India ship; he & another have the health of several hundred soldiers & sailors besides the passengers entrusted to their care. Youngest son inclines to follow the most ancient & useful of all professions, agriculture. Maria lives with himself at Aspley. None are married. Has visited old friend Dr. Douglas, now Bishop of Carlilse, who was tutor to Lord Pulteney at Leipzig, & now lives in Windsor Castle. Nanny Ramsay married a farmer called Oliver, many miles away, who is now dead. Elizabeth Johnson, once a favourite of mine, married Thomas Wright, a watchmaker in London: their family - The Sawell family (schoolmaster). Thomas Walduck who attended them on journey in 1757, died of smallpox. How’s daughter & youngest son were inoculated, & the other children caught the disease by infection & recovered . ....
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