Dear Brother
I am much oblig’d to you for
your kind congratulations and good wishes. We continue
to go on just as we could wish, my little Woman gets
strength daily and is as well as any body in her
situation can be, and the little Girl is as brisk as a
bee. We have had her privately Baptized and named
Harriet, and as we shortly intend to have her {^^publicly} made
a Christian of, I shall take the liberty of asking
you to be her Godfather. It would be an additional
pleasure if this should induce you to pay us a
visit, but as you are so good to give us hopes of
seeing you when it is convenient we ought not to
press you too much. Lady Craven and M^rs Craven
are to be the Godmothers. I wrote to the
Doctor lately to say I hoped his Cambridge business
would not prevent our seeing him and if he will be
so good to take the trouble of bringing Flash it will
be much better than any other method of

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conveying him here. I lately saw M^r Bilmer who you
must remember at Rugby, he desired I would give his
Comp:^s to you when I wrote. That school flourishes
very much, and if when the leases fall in the money
is properly applied it will probably encrease much
more. M^r Borrows is still the master. Madam Ann
joins in kind love to yourself and Charles with
your very sincere and affectionate
R. A. Johnson
Kenelworth
12^:th Dec:^r 1773

M^rs Craven desires her particular Comp:^s

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To
Mall
George William Johnson Esq^r
Witham Hill
near Stamford
Lincolnshire

Dear Brother
I am much obliged to you for
your kind congratulations and good wishes. We continue
to go on just as we could wish, my little Woman gets
strength daily and is as well as any body in her
situation can be, and the little Girl is as brisk as a
bee. We have had her privately Baptized and named
Harriet, and as we shortly intend to have her {^^publicly} made
a Christian of, I shall take the liberty of asking
you to be her Godfather. It would be an additional
pleasure if this should induce you to pay us a
visit, but as you are so good to give us hopes of
seeing you when it is convenient we ought not to
press you too much. Lady Craven and M^rs Craven
are to be the Godmothers. I wrote to the
Doctor lately to say I hoped his Cambridge business
would not prevent our seeing him and if he will be
so good to take the trouble of bringing Flash it will
be much better than any other method of

[f.52v]

conveying him here. I lately saw M^r Bilmer who you
must remember at Rugby, he desired I would give his
Comp:^s to you when I wrote. That school flourishes
very much, and if when the leases fall in the money
is properly applied it will probably increase much
more. M^r Borrows is still the master. Madam Ann
joins in kind love to yourself and Charles with
your very sincere and affectionate
R. A. Johnson
Kenilworth
12^:th Dec:^r 1773

M^rs Craven desires her particular Comp:^s

[f.53]

To
Mall
George William Johnson Esq^r
Witham Hill
near Stamford
Lincolnshire