1298 - Jane Johnson to George Johnson, 20 April 1755
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Dear George
I have sent you some Dry’d apples, Apricocks
& hope you will like them; I am glad you are to come
home so soon, and Bruces Letter to know when; I
am in great haste so can write no more, but that I
wish you a good journey, Love you more than Words
can express, wish you all possible Happiness, & since
there is no other way of being happy but by being
Good & making God our Friend, so I wish you may
be the very best young man inin England, & then
you will be the happiest. Adieu my Dear George &
believe that no Boy was ever better belov’d than
you are by
Jane Johnson
Olney April 20. 1755
[f.4v]
For
my Son George
William Johnson
When I am Dead
Jane Johnson
[change of hand]
Died 1759
I have sent you some Dry’d apples, Apricocks
& hope you will like them; I am glad you are to come
home so soon, and Bruces Letter to know when; I
am in great haste so can write no more, but that I
wish you a good journey, Love you more than Words
can express, wish you all possible Happiness, & since
there is no other way of being happy but by being
Good & making God our Friend, so I wish you may
be the very best young man in
you will be the happiest. Adieu my Dear George &
believe that no Boy was ever better belov’d than
you are by
Jane Johnson
Olney April 20. 1755
[f.4v]
For
my Son George
William Johnson
When I am Dead
Jane Johnson
[change of hand]
Died 1759