198 - Anna Allwood to Rebekah Bateman, undated

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My Dear Mrs Bateman,
It was my intention to have written to you
Immediately after I got home, & am much ashamed to think that I
should have so long omitted it; I have no sufficient apology to make
but hope you will pardon me, & believe that tho’ I am so bad a
correspondent, my respect for you is not in the least diminished.
I think myself under additional obligations to you for your very
kind & pressing invitation to Manr & fully intended to indulge myself
in paying you a visit on my return to London; I sent you a few
Lines from Newcastle, which I suppose you {^received} & having waited there four
days for Company to Leeds; (& the Diligence setting off at Night) as
none at that time were going, I neither thought it safe or prudent to
go alone, therefore took my place in the flying Mercury for York, in=
=tending to go from that to Manr the Company I had with me
were very agreeable & going to London, there I considered the weather
was daily expected to Change, & as I had so good an opportunity of getting
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up to Town comfortably, I thought on all accounts it was best at so late
a Season in the year to persue my journey as the situation of my health
{^required} good Weather to travail in; & through much Mercy I got home safe;
I think you will say with me it was best I did not go out of
my way; for if I had I should have been oblig’d to travail in
the storm which began almost immediately after I got home; I sent
you a Line from York (which I hope you received) that you might not
expect me - - & now my pleasure of seeing you is I hope yet to come
but we dare not presume to say we will do this or that; I trust
grace has taught us better things, yet how much does self prevail,
& often drag us as slaves to do those thing which we would not
& so {^leave} undone those things that we would do; I don’t know how
you find it, but for my own part I feel such strength of {?impiety}
& such depths of depravity that I could not have supposed to exist
in me, had not the Lord in much Mercy discovered it to me by little
& little; I am often constrained to cry out, Oh Wretched Creature
that I am, shall it be always this? when will deliverance from this
Body of Sin & Death come? I am weary of my self & wonder at the
Lord’s patience in bearing with me, but here is the consolation, that He
is the Lord, & He changeth not, therefore the Sons of Jacob are not
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[damaged]
& how [damaged]
always be thus [damaged]
=eing will come; & they [damaged]
Himself will wipe away all [damaged]
more sorrow nor Death nor Sin [damaged]
of your Cousin who is left with Six small [damaged]
but as you justly observe the “Judge of all the Earth [damaged]
right” & when He calls to peculiar sufferings, He gives [damaged]
& strength to endure; & tho’ for the present few can rejoice [damaged]
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And now my dear Mrs Bateman, I must bid you adieu; I need
not tell you I am a bad correspondent the reading these few uncon=
=nected lines is full proof ; pardon my sending them, I am in a very
stupid state of mind & don’t know when it will be otherwise with me; I
sat down to write without a single Idea & as I began, so I finished;
I hope you’ll soon favor me with letter; & give my Respectful Compts to Mr B
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Mrs Thomas Bateman
Piccadilly
Manchester
My Dear Mrs Bateman,
It was my intention to have written to you
Immediately after I got home, & am much ashamed to think that I
should have so long omitted it; I have no sufficient apology to make
but hope you will pardon me, & believe that tho’ I am so bad a
correspondent, my respect for you is not in the least diminished.
I think myself under additional obligations to you for your very
kind & pressing invitation to Manr & fully intended to indulge myself
in paying you a visit on my return to London; I sent you a few
Lines from Newcastle, which I suppose you {^received} & having waited there four
days for Company to Leeds; (& the Diligence setting off at Night) as
none at that time were going, I neither thought it safe or prudent to
go alone, therefore took my place in the flying Mercury for York, in=
=tending to go from that to Manr the Company I had with me
were very agreeable & going to London, there I considered the weather
was daily expected to Change, & as I had so good an opportunity of getting
[new page]
up to Town comfortably, I thought on all accounts it was best at so late
a Season in the year to persue my journey as the situation of my health
{^required} good Weather to travail in; & through much Mercy I got home safe;
I think you will say with me it was best I did not go out of
my way; for if I had I should have been oblig’d to travail in
the storm which began almost immediately after I got home; I sent
you a Line from York (which I hope you received) that you might not
expect me - - & now my pleasure of seeing you is I hope yet to come
but we dare not presume to say we will do this or that; I trust
grace has taught us better things, yet how much does self prevail,
& often drag us as slaves to do those thing which we would not
& so {^leave} undone those things that we would do; I don’t know how
you find it, but for my own part I feel such strength of {?impiety}
& such depths of depravity that I could not have supposed to exist
in me, had not the Lord in much Mercy discovered it to me by little
& little; I am often constrained to cry out, Oh Wretched Creature
that I am, shall it be always this? when will deliverance from this
Body of Sin & Death come? I am weary of my self & wonder at the
Lord’s patience in bearing with me, but here is the consolation, that He
is the Lord, & He changeth not, therefore the Sons of Jacob are not
[new page]
[damaged]
& how [damaged]
always be thus [damaged]
=eing will come; & they [damaged]
Himself will wipe away all [damaged]
more sorrow nor Death nor Sin [damaged]
of your Cousin who is left with Six small [damaged]
but as you justly observe the “Judge of all the Earth [damaged]
right” & when He calls to peculiar sufferings, He gives [damaged]
& strength to endure; & tho’ for the present few can rejoice [damaged]
[cut]
And now my dear Mrs Bateman, I must bid you adieu; I need
not tell you I am a bad correspondent the reading these few uncon=
=nected lines is full proof ; pardon my sending them, I am in a very
stupid state of mind & don’t know when it will be otherwise with me; I
sat down to write without a single Idea & as I began, so I finished;
I hope you’ll soon favor me with letter; & give my Respectful Compts to Mr B
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Mrs Thomas Bateman
Piccadilly
Manchester
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Anna Allwood to Rebekah Bateman, undated

Containing detailed travel plans for her journey to London, her concerns about travelling so late in the year, and contemplating her place on Earth, and how her deprival of a visit with Mrs Bateman fits into a scheme of deprivation that sanctifies her.

Bateman Family Papers

OSB MSS 32 Box 1, Folder 2 [4]

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

178

True

[unknown, England]

Mrs Thomas Bateman, Piccadilly, Manchester

[Lancashire, England]

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Person: Anna Maria Allwood
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  • health
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  • safe

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  • shame

  • duty
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  • self
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  • at home
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