2137 - Elizabeth Longsdon (sen) to John Longsdon, 11 February 1810
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Elizabeth Longsdon (sen) to John Longsdon, 11 February 1810
Elizabeth Longsdon has missed her son but is relieved he is now safe. She writes with news of family (including his sister's health) and giving him a list of people to call on. He is to ask Miss Morewood to accompany him to choose a visiting gown for his mother in plain sarcenet silk or handsome printed muslin, or even cotton.
Longsdon family
D3580/C/94
Derbyshire Record Office
1810
2
11
Longsdon [Derbyshire, England]
Messrs John & G Morewood, Merchants, London [England]
primary author
writing
clothing
separation
- grateful
- happy
- hopeful
- love (familial)
- love (parental)
- pleasure
duty
sight
motherhood
primary addressee
- consumption
- gifting
- travel
- visiting
- work
- business
- friendship
Your Father
other
whole-body
- health
- well
fatherhood
other
whole-body
unwell
disposition
siblings
body - unchanged
other
unwell
siblings
other
well
pleasure
sight
siblings
health - improving
other
visiting
recovery
happy
health - improving
To Cite this Letter
Elizabeth Longsdon (sen) to John Longsdon, 11 February 1810, 1121810: Derbyshire Record Office, Longsdon family, D3580/C/94
To Cite this Edition
Material Identities, Social Bodies: Embodiment in British Letters c.1680-1820. Compiled by: Karen Harvey, Helen Esfandiary, Sarah Fox, Emily Vine, University of Birmingham. Project funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2021-2025, Ref. RPG-2020-163), https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk.