Ashenhurst Teusday February y^e 22^d 170³4.
Deare Sister
I think it very long since we heard how you did, & am much
troubled yt instead of this I cannot come to see you, w^ch. I have been
casting for ever since my Father went; it has made me defer
writing for this fortnight last past & I cannot yet be absent tho but for
One Night, but will see you in a Week or Ten Days; I promise my
self you have been pretty well otherwise we should have heard from
you, w^ch I shall be impatient to do by this Messengerbearer. I hope my
Brother recieved y^e Letter I wrote him on y^e 6^th whereby you will
understand y^e effect of all I could do with my Father in his business
w^ch. tho’ far from ye satisfaction I wish he might have recievedwhat I endeavored yet I
hope both he & you will believe I did all that was in my Power.
my Father writes yt he got well to London & yt y^e first News he heard
after he came to Towne was yt my Unkle Nairne was Knighted on y^e
Queens Birthday; my Sister Hampton desires you will leave excuse
her not writing, Our Maid was sent for to her Mother who was very ill
& my S^tr. is not willing to take any Body into y^e House till she comes
againe, w^ch makes her so busy she cannot leave. With all our Services
to yEself my Brot^E Aunt Birtles & y^e children I conclude &c.
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Ashenhurst Teusday February y^e 22^d 170³4.
Deare Sister
I think it very long since we heard how you did, & am much
troubled that instead of this I cannot come to see you, w^ch. I have been
casting for ever since my Father went; it has made me defer
writing for this fortnight last past & I cannot yet be absent though but for
One Night, but will see you in a Week or Ten Days; I promise my
self you have been pretty well otherwise we should have heard from
you, w^ch I shall be impatient to do by this Messengerbearer. I hope my
Brother recieved y^e Letter I wrote him on y^e 6^th whereby you will
understand y^e effect of all I could do with my Father in his business
w^ch. though far from ye satisfaction I wish he might have receivedwhat I endeavoured yet I
hope both he & you will believe I did all that was in my Power.
my Father writes that he got well to London & yt y^e first News he heard
after he came to Towne was that my Unkle Nairne was Knighted on y^e
Queens Birthday; my Sister Hampton desires you will leave excuse
her not writing, Our Maid was sent for to her Mother who was very ill
& my S^tr. is not willing to take any Body into y^e House till she comes
againe, w^ch makes her so busy she cannot leave. With all our Services
to yourself my Brot^E Aunt Birtles & y^e children I conclude &c.
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