1466 - Thomas Hollinshead to his Sister Stanley, 1 April 1704
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Deare Sister
I hope this will find all well at ye Park I intended to have written last Weeke, but ye disappointmt.
very wet journy, & a very dangerous one by reason of ye Waters
were out beyond what he had ever seen ym. but is now pretty well againe
Sisters joine with me in Service to yEself my BrotE & ye children,
I am &c.
Deare Sister
I hope this will find all well at ye Park I intended to have written last Week, but ye disappointmt.
very wet journey, & a very dangerous one by reason of ye Waters
were out beyond what he had ever seen ym. but is now pretty well again
Sisters join with me in Service to yEself my BrotE & ye children,
I am &c.
Thomas Hollinshead to his Sister Stanley, 1 April 1704
Thomas has delayed writing to his sister because his father came home, having had a wet and dangerous journey. He urges his sister to send the nurse home as soon as possible (though deletes this line from the draft letter).
Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
D231 M/B/8 [56]
Derbyshire Record Office
1704
4
1
April 1 1704
Ashenhurst [Bradnop, Staffordshire, England]
[Alderley Park, Nether Alderley, Cheshire, England]
primary author
writing
- love (familial)
- worried
care provided by family/kin/household
filial
other
travel
old age
unwell
care provided by family/kin/household
- environment
- travel
- weather
Thomas Hollinshead to his Sister Stanley, 1 April 1704, 141704: Derbyshire Record Office, Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family), D231 M/B/8 [56]