Saturday August 17

My Dear Brother
I am extremely glad to
hear that you and Charles are happily
return’d from your Tour, and that you have
both met with so much amusement in it,
I with pleasure receive any Intelligence
relating to it, for I enjoy over again the
entertainment you have had, if either of you
have kept a little Journal of your Route
I should be much oblig’d to you for the
perusal of it, which might easily be sent
and return’d by the Newsman. I dare say
you could not go so far and see so many
places without making memorandums
and observations which it would give me
great pleasure to see.
I hope you will have fine Weather for
your Harvest, but I wish it had not began
quite so soon that we might have had
the chance of seeing you here, which

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would have given me sincere pleasure:
you can’t imagine how happy your Letter
has made me for I began to think it very
long before I heard from you, and I was
often looking over the maps to trace the parts
I suppos’d you might be in.
I enclose you M^r Smyth’s account. I
have receiv’d the money (8£: 19s: 7d) of him,
which I can either send to you by the
Newsman, or keep till we settle again
at Christmas. I have you know besides
that had a Twenty Pounds {^^{Bill you sent}} and forty pound
Post-Bill from London, for which I enclose
a Rec^d for the years Interest.
Pray did you see the Eclipse of the
Moon in your Tour? I believe this whole
Town sat up to look at it, it was very
curious and well worth sitting up for.
M^r & M^rs Grant (who was the eldest Miss Fowler)
belong to the Regiment now quarter’d here
I am very glad to see her again, she is

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a good natur’d agreable Woman.
I had the pleasure of seeing Mr Wodhul
here at the Assizes about a month ago
Robert and Nan go to Thenford next
Friday, they defer’d their visit till after
Warwick Races which are the begginning
of the week. I am sorry poor Nan is
not well, but hope she will soon recover
her strength again. Robert was so good
to write me an account of his excursion
with Lord Craven, I am vastly glad
you have all had such agreable jaunts
this Summer, for nothing gives me
more pleasure than to hear of your being amus’d.
Pray let me know if you want either
a Purse or Garters, I think you must by this time.
D^r & M^rs Nicol, call’d of me last week, and
likewise Dick Wykam and his Wife, their eldest
Daughter is at School here.
Pray let me hear from you whenever you
have leisure, which always gives a real
pleasure to my Dear Brother your Ever Affect. Sister

Saturday August 17

My Dear Brother
I am extremely glad to
hear that you and Charles are happily
returned from your Tour, and that you have
both met with so much amusement in it,
I with pleasure receive any Intelligence
relating to it, for I enjoy over again the
entertainment you have had, if either of you
have kept a little Journal of your Route
I should be much obliged to you for the
perusal of it, which might easily be sent
and returned by the Newsman. I dare say
you could not go so far and see so many
places without making memorandums
and observations which it would give me
great pleasure to see.
I hope you will have fine Weather for
your Harvest, but I wish it had not began
quite so soon that we might have had
the chance of seeing you here, which

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would have given me sincere pleasure:
you can’t imagine how happy your Letter
has made me for I began to think it very
long before I heard from you, and I was
often looking over the maps to trace the parts
I supposed you might be in.
I enclose you M^r Smyth’s account. I
have received the money (8£: 19s: 7d) of him,
which I can either send to you by the
Newsman, or keep till we settle again
at Christmas. I have you know besides
that had a Twenty Pounds {^^{Bill you sent}} and forty pound
Post-Bill from London, for which I enclose
a Rec^d for the years Interest.
Pray did you see the Eclipse of the
Moon in your Tour? I believe this whole
Town sat up to look at it, it was very
curious and well worth sitting up for.
M^r & M^rs Grant (who was the eldest Miss Fowler)
belong to the Regiment now quartered here
I am very glad to see her again, she is

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a good natured agreeable Woman.
I had the pleasure of seeing Mr Wodhul
here at the Assizes about a month ago
Robert and Nan go to Thenford next
Friday, they deferred their visit till after
Warwick Races which are the beginning
of the week. I am sorry poor Nan is
not well, but hope she will soon recover
her strength again. Robert was so good
to write me an account of his excursion
with Lord Craven, I am vastly glad
you have all had such agreeable jaunts
this Summer, for nothing gives me
more pleasure than to hear of your being amused.
Pray let me know if you want either
a Purse or Garters, I think you must by this time.
D^r & M^rs Nicol, called of me last week, and
likewise Dick Wykam and his Wife, their eldest
Daughter is at School here.
Pray let me hear from you whenever you
have leisure, which always gives a real
pleasure to my Dear Brother your Ever Affect. Sister