245 - Rebekah Bateman to Thomas Bateman, 8 November 1788
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sorry to hear you was worse for your journey I wish
you had staid all night I think it woud have been
better pray take care & don’t increase your cold –
I was rather disturb’d by your hinting as if you
thought I was indifferent about returning home
I can assure you it is not ye case & I hope you will
do me the justice to alter your sentiments
if they were {?nearly} what one might suppose
them to be by your
the letter. I hope however my Papa if me means
to come {^at all} will come on Monday or else you
must give me leave to take ye Coach as I shall
be uneasy to stay any longer than Monday
or Tuesday, at ye farthest; present our joint
respects to all at Shudehull & accept ye sincere
affection of
your
truly
affectionate Wife
Rebh Bateman
Bolton
Novr 9 1788
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Mr Bateman
Merchant
Levers-Row
Manchester
sorry to hear you was worse for your journey I wish
you had staid all night I think it woud have been
better pray take care & don’t increase your cold –
I was rather disturb’d by your hinting as if you
thought I was indifferent about returning home
I can assure you it is not ye case & I hope you will
do me the justice to alter your sentiments
if they were {?nearly} what one might suppose
them to be by your
the letter. I hope however my Papa if me means
to come {^at all} will come on Monday or else you
must give me leave to take ye Coach as I shall
be uneasy to stay any longer than Monday
or Tuesday, at ye farthest; present our joint
respects to all at Shudehull & accept ye sincere
affection of
your
truly
affectionate Wife
Rebh Bateman
Bolton
Novr 9 1788
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Mr Bateman
Merchant
Levers-Row
Manchester
Rebekah Bateman to Thomas Bateman, 8 November 1788
Expressing concern at news of his difficult journey and subsequent illness, resolving a conflict in which it appears Thomas suggested she was indifferent to his return home, requesting permission to take the Coach on Monday if her father hasn't been to collect her/
Bateman Family Papers
OSB MSS 32 Box 1, Folder 6 [14b]
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
1788
11
9
Novr 9 1788
Bolton
[Lancashire, England]
Mr Bateman, Merchant
[??Manchester??, ??Lancashire??, England]
primary author
- travel
- writing
separation
uneasy
- affection
- love
- sorrow
- sympathy
distraction
care provided by family/kin/household
marriage
primary addressee
- travel
- work
- writing
- a cold
- illness
- separation
- ill-health
- unwell
- distress
- feeling
- love (familial)
- travel
- work
- business
- family
- marriage
To Cite this Letter
Rebekah Bateman to Thomas Bateman, 8 November 1788, 9111788: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Bateman Family Papers, OSB MSS 32 Box 1, Folder 6 [14b]
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.