1631 - Thomas Hollinshead to his Sister Stanley, 28 December 1704
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Ashenhurst Thursday December ye 28th. 1704.
Dear Sister
I am afraid ye Letter I wrote you just after my Fathers
return home miscarried, we think it long since we heard how
all do at ye Parke, but hope to be assured of yE health by
this bearer; My Father is not willing to part with Nancy whilst
he is at Home, & he is not {^yet} resolved with himself whether he shall
go to London next Term; therefore would have {^you send} what things you
have ofNancy’shers; pray present my Service to my BrotE. Stanley
& tell him I would have written to him now but that I have
nothing worth troubling him with; will be constantly mindfull
of his business, tho’ I have so often said so, & been able to do so little
in it, yt I begin to be ashamed to mention it either by word or
writing; {^but of what I write to you take no notice if you write again} I am Dear Sister &c.
Dear Sister
I am afraid ye Letter I wrote you just after my Fathers
return home miscarried, we think it long since we heard how
all do at ye Parke, but hope to be assured of yE health by
this bearer; My Father is not willing to part with Nancy whilst
he is at Home, & he is not {^yet} resolved with himself whether he shall
go to London next Term; therefore would have {^you send} what things you
have of
& tell him I would have written to him now but that I have
nothing worth troubling him with; will be constantly mindfull
of his business, tho’ I have so often said so, & been able to do so little
in it, yt I begin to be ashamed to mention it either by word or
writing; {^but of what I write to you take no notice if you write again} I am Dear Sister &c.
Ashenhurst Thursday December ye 28th. 1704.
Dear Sister
I am afraid ye Letter I wrote you just after my Fathers
return home miscarried, we think it long since we heard how
all do at ye Parke, but hope to be assured of your health by
this bearer; My Father is not willing to part with Nancy whilst
he is at Home, & he is not {^yet} resolved with himself whether he shall
go to London next Term; therefore would have {^you send} what things you
have ofNancy’shers; pray present my Service to my BrotE. Stanley
& tell him I would have written to him now but that I have
nothing worth troubling him with; will be constantly mindfull
of his business, though I have so often said so, & been able to do so little
in it, that I begin to be ashamed to mention it either by word or
writing; {^but of what I write to you take no notice if you write again} I am Dear Sister &c.
Dear Sister
I am afraid ye Letter I wrote you just after my Fathers
return home miscarried, we think it long since we heard how
all do at ye Parke, but hope to be assured of your health by
this bearer; My Father is not willing to part with Nancy whilst
he is at Home, & he is not {^yet} resolved with himself whether he shall
go to London next Term; therefore would have {^you send} what things you
have of
& tell him I would have written to him now but that I have
nothing worth troubling him with; will be constantly mindfull
of his business, though I have so often said so, & been able to do so little
in it, that I begin to be ashamed to mention it either by word or
writing; {^but of what I write to you take no notice if you write again} I am Dear Sister &c.
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Thomas Hollinshead to his Sister Stanley, 28 December 1704
Thomas wants his sister to give the bearer of the letter an oral report of their health. Their father wants to keep Nancy at home with him and Thomas reports feeling shame at not helping his father more in his business.
Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
D231 M/B/8 [74]
Derbyshire Record Office
1704
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Thursday December 28 1704
Ashenhurst [Bradnop, Staffordshire, England]
[Alderley Park, Nether Alderley, Cheshire, England]
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Person: Thomas Hollinshead
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writing
- love (familial)
- shame
- worried
siblings
Person: Francis Hollinshead (snr)
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other
- travel
- work
old age
care provided by family/kin/household
- at home
- urban
Person: Nancy Hollinshead
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other
childhood
care provided by family/kin/household
at home