1775 - Thomas Hollinshead to his sister Stanley, 24 January 1708
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I hope this [illeg shorthand] 6 Park, I had a [?Letter: shorthand] from [illeg shorthand: {?father}] yesterday
wherein he writes yt
ye mend hand, yt he has some thoughts of returning home very
speedily, & then he [illeg shorthand] go to London Term, this he has not resolved but I
must hear further from him, his uncertainty in this & ye short warning
I fear I shall have of it will [illeg shorthand] send for Nancy sooner then I intended.
{^If I should go will endeavor to see you first}
John Dawson is dead & 9 going into Winkle [illeg shorthand] afternoon, wch my service
to my Brote & ye children I conclude dr Sister &c.
If you write such a [?Letter: shorthand] [illeg shorthand] menconed to my BrotE by Jo. {?Goostry} I
[illeg shorthand]
I hope this [illeg shorthand] 6 Park, I had a [?Letter: shorthand] from [illeg shorthand: {?father] yesterday
wherein he writes that
ye mend hand, yet he has some thoughts of returning home very
speedily, & then he [illeg shorthand] go to London Term, this he has not resolved but I
must hear further from him, his uncertainty in this & ye short warning
I fear I shall have of it will [illeg shorthand] send for Nancy sooner then I intended.
{^If I should go will endeavor to see you first}
John Dawson is dead & 9 going into Winkle [illeg shorthand] afternoon, wch my service
to my Brote & ye children I conclude dr Sister &c.
If you write such a [?Letter: shorthand] [illeg shorthand] mentioned to my BrotE by Jo. {?Goostry} I
[illeg shorthand]
Thomas Hollinshead to his sister Stanley, 24 January 1708
Thomas has received a letter from their father whose ailment is improving. Thomas suggests his father is somewhat undecided or confused about his plans to travel home and then to London, but Thomas suspects will mean he has to call their sister Nancy sooner than he had planned (presumably to care for their father).
Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family)
D231 M/B/8 [141]
Derbyshire Record Office
1708
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24
Ibid. eod.
[Ashenhurst, Bradnop, Staffordshire, England]
[Alderley Park, Nether Alderley, Cheshire, England]
other
- body
- hands
old age
- confused
- mind
care provided by family/kin/household
body - improving
other
work
childhood
care provided by family/kin/household
filial
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Thomas Hollinshead to his sister Stanley, 24 January 1708, 2411708: Derbyshire Record Office, Hollinshead Letterbook (Okeover family), D231 M/B/8 [141]
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