Dear Brother
As Robert has been so concise in his
account of the Ball at Astrop last Monday I will
entertain Charles and you with a longer history
of it, for it was really very agreable, we break
-fasted there in the Morning then return’d
home to dine and dress, in the evening the Ball
was open’d with a Minuet by Robert and M^rs
Cartwrighte, for Lady Say did not figure away
in a Minuet, she danc’d Country dances with the
Master of the Ceremonys, M^rs Wodhull & M^r
W^m Cartwrighte, Robert and M^rs Taylor, Jack Watkin
with Bab, and I, we stay’d there till day-light
and then came home, M^r Whitmore has been
here this last week, eighteen people din’d
here on Thursday and fifteen the next day
we have seldom had less than a dozen
next Monday we breakfast at Astrop and go on
from Thence to dine at M^r Cartwrighte’s
Old M^rs Nicol is dead, and her daughter is married
again to a Farmer’s son of Chichley, a young
man about twenty five, they still continue to
live upon her Farm at Clifton.
Bab is with M^rs Wodhull at Aynho, Mary
is here, and Nanny is with Lady Vere
Adieu Dear Brother my Love to Charles,
Believe me
Ever affectionately yours

[f.43v]

M^r
George William Johnson Esq^r
Witham Hill
near Stamford
Lincolnshire

Dear Brother
As Robert has been so concise in his
account of the Ball at Astrop last Monday I will
entertain Charles and you with a longer history
of it, for it was really very agreeable, we break
-fasted there in the Morning then returned
home to dine and dress, in the evening the Ball
was opened with a Minuet by Robert and M^rs
Cartwrighte, for Lady Say did not figure away
in a Minuet, she danced Country dances with the
Master of the Ceremonies, M^rs Wodhull & M^r
W^m Cartwrighte, Robert and M^rs Taylor, Jack Watkin
with Bab, and I, we stayed there till day-light
and then came home, M^r Whitmore has been
here this last week, eighteen people dined
here on Thursday and fifteen the next day
we have seldom had less than a dozen
next Monday we breakfast at Astrop and go on
from Thence to dine at M^r Cartwrighte’s
Old M^rs Nicol is dead, and her daughter is married
again to a Farmer’s son of Chichley, a young
man about twenty five, they still continue to
live upon her Farm at Clifton.
Bab is with M^rs Wodhull at Aynho, Mary
is here, and Nanny is with Lady Vere
Adieu Dear Brother my Love to Charles,
Believe me
Ever affectionately yours

[f.43v]

M^r
George William Johnson Esq^r
Witham Hill
near Stamford
Lincolnshire