1432 - Barbara Johnson to George William Johnson, 23 April 1773
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Dear Brother
I shall with great pleasure
accept your kind Invitation to meet Robert and Mrs
Johnson at Wytham. They are so good to propose
conveying me back again to Northampton in their
way to Kenilworth. I believe I shall be with you
about next Friday, And propose great pleasure
in our all meeting together again, and that I
might find no interruption to it I yesterday
underwent the terrible operation of having a tooth
drawn, it had plagued me for some days and I
thought I should have no comfort while I was
at Wytham for it. I believe no other inducement
wd have given me sufficient resolution, it
was a very difficult one to take out and has left
so great a soreness and swelling that I am still
in a good deal of pain, but I hope in a few
days to be quite well again, at present it hurts
me to hold my head to write, so will
no more than my Love to Charles if with you
but I suppose he is gone to London, Believe
me Dear Brother
your ever Affect Sister
B. Johnson
[f.3v]
George Wm Johnson Esqr
Wytham Hill
Stamford
Lincolnshire
Dear Brother
I shall with great pleasure
accept your kind Invitation to meet Robert and Mrs
Johnson at Wytham. They are so good to propose
conveying me back again to Northampton in their
way to Kenilworth. I believe I shall be with you
about next Friday, And propose great pleasure
in our all meeting together again, and that I
might find no interruption to it I yesterday
underwent the terrible operation of having a tooth
drawn, it had plagued me for some days and I
thought I should have no comfort while I was
at Wytham for it. I believe no other inducement
wd have given me sufficient resolution, it
was a very difficult one to take out and has left
so great a soreness and swelling that I am still
in a good deal of pain, but I hope in a few
days to be quite well again, at present it hurts
me to hold my head to write, so will
no more than my Love to Charles if with you
but I suppose he is gone to London, Believe
me Dear Brother
your ever Affect Sister
B. Johnson
[f.3v]
George Wm Johnson Esqr
Wytham Hill
Stamford
Lincolnshire
Barbara Johnson to George William Johnson, 23 April 1773
Barbara was delighted to receive an invitation to Wytham to see Robert and Mrs Johnson. In order to make sure she would have no distractions during her visit, she has just had a troublesome tooth pulled in advance of her journey. The operation was very painful and difficult, but the pain of the toothache had bothered her for days. Her mouth is still very swollen and sore, and it hurts to hold her head up to write, so she signs off the letter, sending love.
Johnson Family
MS. Don. c. 193 3
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
1773
4
23
[England]
Wytham Hill, Stamford, Lincolnshire [England]
primary author
- face
- head
- mouth
- teeth
- travel
- visiting
- writing
aesthetics
uneasy
- apprehension
- hopeful
- low
pain
- medical
- surgery
body - unchanged
primary addressee
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Barbara Johnson to George William Johnson, 23 April 1773, 2341773: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Johnson Family, MS. Don. c. 193 3
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