1310 - Ralph Abercromby to Jane Johnson, December

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Madam
I am greatly oblige’d to you for
your offer of sending the horses for me, but I am almost
asham’d to beg that you wou’d be so good as to send them
on Monday the 17th the Apothecary says my Leg will
by well by that time. Mr Knail and Mrs Crossfield
join in their Compliments to you and Mr Johnson
as does your most
humble and obliged
servant
R Abercromby

Pray give my Compliments to all
the family at Clifton

Rugby December
Madam
I am greatly obliged to you for
your offer of sending the horses for me, but I am almost
ashamed to beg that you would be so good as to send them
on Monday the 17th the Apothecary says my Leg will
by well by that time. Mr Knail and Mrs Crossfield
join in their Compliments to you and Mr Johnson
as does your most
humble and obliged
servant
R Abercromby

Pray give my Compliments to all
the family at Clifton

Rugby December
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Ralph Abercromby to Jane Johnson, December

Abercromby thanks the Johnsons for their offer to send their horses to collect him from school. He asks that they send them on the 17th – the apothecary thinks his leg will have healed enough for him to travel by then.

Johnson Family

MS. Don. c. 190 f.48

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

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Rugby School, Rugby, Warwickshire [England]

Olney, Buckinghamshire [England]

reporting

  • conflictual
  • hopeful
  • positive

  • main body
  • opening

41-60%

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Person: Ralph Abercromby
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leg

  • horse-riding
  • travel

injured

youth

  • grateful
  • hopeful

duty

apothecary

school

body - improving

Person: Jane Johnson
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