295 - Thomas Nicholson to Mary-Ann Nicholson, 14 September 1798
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Miss Mary Ann Nicholson
at Mr Nicholson’s
Richmond Row
Liverpool
[change of orientation]
Gateacre
14 Sept 1798
Thos Nicholson
to M A, B, & J, N
[f.40]
Friday Evening Gateacre 14 Septr 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
Thos 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 -
Miss Mary Ann Nicholson
at Mr Nicholson’s
Richmond Row
Liverpool
[change of orientation]
Gateacre
14 Sept 1798
Thos Nicholson
to M A, B, & J, N
[f.40]
Friday Evening Gateacre 14 Septr 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
Thos 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 -
Thomas Nicholson to Mary-Ann Nicholson, 14 September 1798
Father to daughter. The children have been staying with relatives while their parents make the house ready, and the parents were very glad to hear that the children are all well. They now would like the children to return to them, and the father will go and collect them next Friday if the weather is good. The father and mother are both well, and they’ve heard that other relatives are also well. They ask Betty not to wash any more of their clothes, but to bring them home with them.
Nicholson Family Papers
ENG 1041 f40
1798
9
14
Richmond Row, Liverpool [Lancashire, England]
Gateacre [Lancashire, England]
primary author
- travel
- visiting
- hurried
- well
- affection
- grateful
- happy
- hopeful
- love (parental)
weather
primary addressee
visiting
clothing
well
- happy
- hopeful
disposition
To Cite this Letter
Thomas Nicholson to Mary-Ann Nicholson, 14 September 1798, 1491798, Nicholson Family Papers, ENG 1041 f40
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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.