Dear Brother
We are at last comfortably settled in
our house at Bath which we find as convenient and
the place as agreeable as we expected. We are charmingly
situated for country air, not a hundred yards from some
sweetly pleasant fields: indeed the whole country round
this place is beautiful beyond description. The town
too is very neat, and the regularity of the new part of it
has a most pleasing effect. The crescent is now completed
and is really one of the most most striking things I ever
saw in my life. You have not been at Bath {^^for} many
years, so come and take a peep at us, I wish I could
prevail on you to shift the scene from your study
and retirement to y^e gaieties and amusements of Bath for
a few months this winter. We should be most heartily
rejoiced to see you, and when you had once got here I
am sure you would like it. I have yet been unable
to go about much, a disagreeable giddiness I have had for
some time past, has made me quite good for nothing. I
have drank the waters for it ever since we came here
and as they have already been of service to me, I hope
by persevering in the same plan to get quite stout again
in a few weeks. My little Girl is very well and as
lively as possible, she wants only strength to be running
about from morning ‘till night, and that another month

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or two I hope will give her she was a twelvemonth old
last saturday sennight M^rs Craven (who is so kind to spend
the winter with us) and M^rs Johnson are very well they
both desire their kind love and good wishes to you. Now
Charles has left you, I wish I could prevail on you to
write a line now and then to let us know how you do.
Believe me dear Brother it would give the greatest
satisfaction to your very affectionate
R.A. Johnson
Brock Street
7^th Nov:^r 1774

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To
G W Johnson Esq^r
Witham Hill
near Stamford
Mall Lincolnshire

Dear Brother
We are at last comfortably settled in
our house at Bath which we find as convenient and
the place as agreeable as we expected. We are charmingly
situated for country air, not a hundred yards from some
sweetly pleasant fields: indeed the whole country round
this place is beautiful beyond description. The town
too is very neat, and the regularity of the new part of it
has a most pleasing effect. The crescent is now completed
and is really one of the most most striking things I ever
saw in my life. You have not been at Bath {^^for} many
years, so come and take a peep at us, I wish I could
prevail on you to shift the scene from your study
and retirement to y^e gaieties and amusements of Bath for
a few months this winter. We should be most heartily
rejoiced to see you, and when you had once got here I
am sure you would like it. I have yet been unable
to go about much, a disagreeable giddiness I have had for
some time past, has made me quite good for nothing. I
have drank the waters for it ever since we came here
and as they have already been of service to me, I hope
by persevering in the same plan to get quite stout again
in a few weeks. My little Girl is very well and as
lively as possible, she wants only strength to be running
about from morning ‘till night, and that another month

[f.58v]

or two I hope will give her she was a twelvemonth old
last Saturday sennight M^rs Craven (who is so kind to spend
the winter with us) and M^rs Johnson are very well they
both desire their kind love and good wishes to you. Now
Charles has left you, I wish I could prevail on you to
write a line now and then to let us know how you do.
Believe me dear Brother it would give the greatest
satisfaction to your very affectionate
R.A. Johnson
Brock Street
7^th Nov:^r 1774

[change of orientation]

To
G W Johnson Esq^r
Witham Hill
near Stamford
Mall Lincolnshire