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Miss Mary Ann Nicholson
at Mr Nicholson’s
Richmond Row
Liverpool
[change of orientation]
Gateacre
14 Sept 1798
Tho^s Nicholson
to M A, B, & J, N
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Friday Evening Gateacre 14 Sept^r 1798
My dear Mary Ann, Betsy & James
your Mother and I send our best
love to you and hope you have been
very good, we were glad to hear you
were all very well by a letter I received
from your Uncle Boardman yesterday
and that Sally was got to Richmond.
The house is now put into neat order
and the Goods all unpacked & set
in the rooms; your Mother and I
now wish to have you with us, and
if the weather is fair on Friday next
I intend going to you, staying all
night, and bringing you here {^^{on Tuesday}} which
I dare say you will be very glad of,
although you have been very happy
with Betty and Alice at Richmond if
you have been good and I trust you have

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We are very much obliged to Betty
and Alice and so are you for taking
care of you and to your Uncle for
letting us have his house while
we were getting ours ready, your
Mother & I have been very busy
and are now well. Your Uncle Board-
-man tells us my Brother & Sister
& Niece are well at Harrowgate; and
your Grandmother & our friends at
Travis Mill and Isle we hear are
well, so is your Cousin Tom, at School
next house to us here – William
will take this letter to you and
will tell you any thing you ask
him about this place – Alice is

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well and sends her love and we all
desire to be remembered to Betty Alice &
Sally. I am my dear Children
your affectionate Father
Tho^s Nicholson

Your Mother desires you will tell Betty
not to wash any more of you cloaths
she would have Sally bring them
home as they are

Send word by William how you
all do at Richmond -

[f.40rb]
Miss Mary Ann Nicholson
at Mr Nicholson’s
Richmond Row
Liverpool
[change of orientation]
Gateacre
14 Sept 1798
Tho^s Nicholson
to M A, B, & J, N
[f.40]
Friday Evening Gateacre 14 Sept^r 1798
My dear Mary Ann, Betsy & James
your Mother and I send our best
love to you and hope you have been
very good, we were glad to hear you
were all very well by a letter I received
from your Uncle Boardman yesterday
and that Sally was got to Richmond.
The house is now put into neat order
and the Goods all unpacked & set
in the rooms; your Mother and I
now wish to have you with us, and
if the weather is fair on Friday next
I intend going to you, staying all
night, and bringing you here {^^{on Tuesday}} which
I dare say you will be very glad of,
although you have been very happy
with Betty and Alice at Richmond if
you have been good and I trust you have

[f.40v]

We are very much obliged to Betty
and Alice and so are you for taking
care of you and to your Uncle for
letting us have his house while
we were getting ours ready, your
Mother & I have been very busy
and are now well. Your Uncle Board-
-man tells us my Brother & Sister
& Niece are well at Harrowgate; and
your Grandmother & our friends at
Travis Mill and Isle we hear are
well, so is your Cousin Tom, at School
next house to us here – William
will take this letter to you and
will tell you any thing you ask
him about this place – Alice is

[f.40vb]

well and sends her love and we all
desire to be remembered to Betty Alice &
Sally. I am my dear Children
your affectionate Father
Tho^s Nicholson

Your Mother desires you will tell Betty
not to wash any more of you cloaths
she would have Sally bring them
home as they are

Send word by William how you
all do at Richmond -