To
Mas-ter Ro-bert
Au-gus-tus Johnson
at
Wytham on the Hill
Lin-coln-shire
From his mother

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Olney No-vem-ber 15.
1753

Dear Robert
It gave me great plea-sure to hear by Jacky
Ansell that you are very well, but I am sorry you
would not come home with him, for I want sadly
to see you, be-sides am fearful you neglect your
Book, & if you for-get how to read, it will give
you a vast deal of trou-ble to learn again, so pray
be so good to your self as to read twice a day to
pret-ty Miss Pruey every day till she, & Jacky, &
you come to Olney which you must do on Satur-day
the first of De-cem-ber for we shall them want
your Little Horse to be home that he may
be rea-dy to fetch your Bro-ther Johnson, who is
to come from school in a few days after the time
a-bove named. Pray give Ben-ny a kiss for me, &
tell him I Love him Dear-ly be-cause he is a good
Boy. I wish you all a very good jour-ney to Olney.
My Compliments wait in M^r & M^rs Ansell, & on
all their Sons & Daughters
Jane Johnson

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your Brother Wool-sey has read every word of
the other side of this Letter very well, every body
says they don’t think you can read it half so
well, but I hope they are mis-ta-ken. For I think
my Robert will never be such a Fool to let a little
Boy out do him, a little Boy al-most two years
& a half younger than your self.

To
Mas-ter Ro-bert
Au-gus-tus Johnson
at
Wytham on the Hill
Lin-coln-shire
From his mother

[f.7]

Olney No-vem-ber 15.
1753

Dear Robert
It gave me great plea-sure to hear by Jacky
Ansell that you are very well, but I am sorry you
would not come home with him, for I want sadly
to see you, be-sides am fearful you neglect your
Book, & if you for-get how to read, it will give
you a vast deal of trouble to learn again, so pray
be so good to your self as to read twice a day to
pretty Miss Pruey every day till she, & Jacky, &
you come to Olney which you must do on Saturday
the first of De-cem-ber for we shall them want
your Little Horse to be home that he may
be rea-dy to fetch your Brother Johnson, who is
to come from school in a few days after the time
a-bove named. Pray give Ben-ny a kiss for me, &
tell him I Love him Dearly be-cause he is a good
Boy. I wish you all a very good journey to Olney.
My Compliments wait in M^r & M^rs Ansell, & on
all their Sons & Daughters
Jane Johnson

[f.7v]

your Brother Wool-sey has read every word of
the other side of this Letter very well, every body
says they don’t think you can read it half so
well, but I hope they are mis-ta-ken. For I think
my Robert will never be such a Fool to let a little
Boy out do him, a little Boy al-most two years
& a half younger than your self.