1453 - Barbara Johnson to George William Johnson, 13 February 1777
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Feb: 13th 1777
My Dear Brother
I have this minute receiv’d your
Letter with that half the Bank-note enclos’d.
I am oblig’d to you for the other Charards. I found
them both out directly. the first is Flowers, the
second Flora. tho’ if I had not lately read Goldsmith’s
animated nature I should not have {^known} the Ray to be the
Genus of the Skate-fish.
I have not discover’d all the Charards which Robert
sent me but will explain those I have found out.
1st School-Boy, Garrick’s is Bedlam, 4th Napkin,
8th Boatswain, 9th Hedge-hog, 10th Platonick-Love.
11th Sexton, 12th Waggon, 13th Hatband, 14th Lilly.
I should like vastly to see the Tour you went last
year thro’ Wales, and as you wd be so good to lend it me
to read, it is a little Book and will come by the
Newsman who is a very safe conveyance for anything
I will take care to return {^it} you with thanks.
Did you ever read a small Poem call’d Ver-Vert or
the Nunnery Parrot? A translation from Grefset by
Gilbert Cooper, it is now out of Print and therefore very
valuable, Mr Wodhull was so good to make me a present
of it lately, and if you have not read it I will send it. if
it will be any entertainment to you.
a ludicrous instance of the excess to which Gaming is
carried occur’d here lately, a poor Man confin’d in jail
was playing at Cards with another man in the street
[f.21v]
who dealt the Cards to him thro’ the prison – Grate.
My Love to Charles I will write to him soon,
in the mean time pray let me know if either
of you find out the enclos’d riddle.
I believe Mr & Mrs Liddiard are now with Robert
at Bath, they were all well when I heard
Adieu my Dear Brother, Believe me Sincerely
Your affect. Sister
B. Johnson
My Dear Brother
I have this minute receiv’d your
Letter with that half the Bank-note enclos’d.
I am oblig’d to you for the other Charards. I found
them both out directly. the first is Flowers, the
second Flora. tho’ if I had not lately read Goldsmith’s
animated nature I should not have {^known} the Ray to be the
Genus of the Skate-fish.
I have not discover’d all the Charards which Robert
sent me but will explain those I have found out.
1st School-Boy, Garrick’s is Bedlam, 4th Napkin,
8th Boatswain, 9th Hedge-hog, 10th Platonick-Love.
11th Sexton, 12th Waggon, 13th Hatband, 14
I should like vastly to see the Tour you went last
year thro’ Wales, and as you wd be so good to lend it me
to read, it is a little Book and will come by the
Newsman who is a very safe conveyance for anything
I will take care to return {^it} you with thanks.
Did you ever read a small Poem call’d Ver-Vert or
the Nunnery Parrot? A translation from Grefset by
Gilbert Cooper, it is now out of Print and therefore very
valuable, Mr Wodhull was so good to make me a present
of it lately, and if you have not read it I will send it. if
it will be any entertainment to you.
a ludicrous instance of the excess to which Gaming is
carried occur’d here lately, a poor Man confin’d in jail
was playing at Cards with another man in the street
[f.21v]
who dealt the Cards to him thro’ the prison – Grate.
My Love to Charles I will write to him soon,
in the mean time pray let me know if either
of you find out the enclos’d riddle.
I believe Mr & Mrs Liddiard are now with Robert
at Bath, they were all well when I heard
Adieu my Dear Brother, Believe me Sincerely
Your affect. Sister
B. Johnson