My Dear B
I hope this will find you well & safe at the end of
your journey I have been uneasy since you left me; lest
the fullness at your stomach & pain in the head shoud
increase by travelling & make {^you} poorly whilst from home
I sincerely hope it will not be the case to prevent
It, do be at the trouble of getting a little salt of wormwood
& lemons & take a draught twice or thrice a day .
Poor Will miss’d you this morning, he lifted up his
hand of his own accord & said Papa, tata, he has been with
me this morning to Doc^r Mitchells, to ask if it would
be convenient for them to take M^r Richardson [deleted]
which they both came into immediately saying it
woud make no difference at all to them. Will^m was
much entertain’d there & kept calling y^e Doct^r Papa
upon which I ask’d him if I might leave him he
said he thought the principal objection woud be on
my side so I brought him home with me again .
M^r Holland is not yet return’d from his love {?Ramb}[damaged]
I shoud suppose nothing short of a final decision can
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be the event.
I know I need make no apology for cutting
short a letter so uninteresting as this must appear to you
the trivialness of it, is enough to make you wish to for the
conclusion; I hope yours will be more particular as you
will have more to relate, mine however is dictated by
a heart that feels for the spiritual & temporal [damaged]
of the person to whom it is address’d; accept the tender
of my best respects & believe me
My D^r B
your sincerely affectionate
till Death
Manchester Rebekah Bateman
May 7^th 1789
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William [deleted] desires his respects & begs me to tell
you that he applied to M^r Seedhouse for what you
desir’d but his he was so busy he coud not have
it today, but is to have it tomorrow.
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M^r Tho^s Bateman
Tontine Inn
Glasgow

My Dear B
I hope this will find you well & safe at the end of
your journey I have been uneasy since you left me; lest
the fullness at your stomach & pain in the head shoud
increase by travelling & make {^you} poorly whilst from home
I sincerely hope it will not be the case to prevent
It, do be at the trouble of getting a little salt of wormwood
& lemons & take a draught twice or thrice a day .
Poor Will miss’d you this morning, he lifted up his
hand of his own accord & said Papa, tata, he has been with
me this morning to Doc^r Mitchells, to ask if it would
be convenient for them to take M^r Richardson [deleted]
which they both came into immediately saying it
woud make no difference at all to them. Will^m was
much entertain’d there & kept calling y^e Doct^r Papa
upon which I ask’d him if I might leave him he
said he thought the principal objection woud be on
my side so I brought him home with me again .
M^r Holland is not yet return’d from his love {?Ramb}[damaged]
I shoud suppose nothing short of a final decision can
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be the event.
I know I need make no apology for cutting
short a letter so uninteresting as this must appear to you
the trivialness of it, is enough to make you wish to for the
conclusion; I hope yours will be more particular as you
will have more to relate, mine however is dictated by
a heart that feels for the spiritual & temporal [damaged]
of the person to whom it is address’d; accept the tender
of my best respects & believe me
My D^r B
your sincerely affectionate
till Death
Manchester Rebekah Bateman
May 7^th 1789
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William [deleted] desires his respects & begs me to tell
you that he applied to M^r Seedhouse for what you
desir’d but his he was so busy he coud not have
it today, but is to have it tomorrow.
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M^r Tho^s Bateman
Tontine Inn
Glasgow