297 - Ann Hatfield to Mary-Ann, Elizabeth and James Nicholson, 28 November 1798
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Mary Ann & Betsey Nicholson
not forgetting James
[change of orientation]
Houghton
28 Novr 1798
Ann Hatfield
to M A N
[f.41]
Haughton Novbr 28
My Dear Mary Ann & Betsy
I thank you for your kind
letters likewise my Dear James
for his Kiss & his love it was
a Disappointment to me not
to see you in your new Habi
=tation I am Glad to find you
like it so well, you say you
have got a play Room I hope
you Don’t spend all your
time in play, I expect the
next Letter to hear some acc
=ount of your work & that
you improve in Reading &
above all in the Governing
your passions, I shall be Glad
to hear of your kind Behaviour
[f.41v]
to each other & likewise to
your Bro: your {^aunt} Abbatt sends
her love to you both, she is sor
=ry she Doth not know Betsey
she hears a very Good account
of her from those that have
seen her, the Gentlemen that
Din’d with you speaks very
well of you Both which given
your Aunt Great pleasure,
never my Dear Girls let com=
=mendations make you Proud
always think you must be=
=have well or you do not de
=serve it, then it will be mock
=ry, Betty is much oblig’d to
Mary Ann for Remebring her she
hat sent her some of her Flower
seed, we have many Flowers
in the Garden, your Aunt
& Betty are very kind to me
I have a fire in my Room
Every night it was so much
in this morning that Betty
Lighted her Candle at it,
we are sorry to hear your
Cousin Hannah is not Got
well yet, I shou’d have write
to her but am not Certain
where she is, I suppose by this
time you have Got your new
servants, I wish they may be
agreeable, I am very Busy with
Patch work & knitting my self stock
=ings, in the Evening I knit that
Coarse worsit accept my Dear
Mary Ann & Becky & James of my
sincere Good wishes Believe to be
your affecte Grandmother of Hatfield
Mary Ann & Betsey Nicholson
not forgetting James
[change of orientation]
Houghton
28 Novr 1798
Ann Hatfield
to M A N
[f.41]
Haughton Novbr 28
My Dear Mary Ann & Betsy
I thank you for your kind
letters likewise my Dear James
for his Kiss & his love it was
a Disappointment to me not
to see you in your new Habi
=tation I am Glad to find you
like it so well, you say you
have got a play Room I hope
you Don’t spend all your
time in play, I expect the
next Letter to hear some acc
=ount of your work & that
you improve in Reading &
above all in the Governing
your passions, I shall be Glad
to hear of your kind Behaviour
[f.41v]
to each other & likewise to
your Bro: your {^aunt} Abbatt sends
her love to you both, she is sor
=ry she Doth not know Betsey
she hears a very Good account
of her from those that have
seen her, the Gentlemen that
Din’d with you speaks very
well of you Both which given
your Aunt Great pleasure,
never my Dear Girls let com=
=mendations make you Proud
always think you must be=
=have well or you do not de
=serve it, then it will be mock
=ry, Betty is much oblig’d to
Mary Ann for Remebring her she
hat sent her some of her Flower
seed, we have many Flowers
in the Garden, your Aunt
& Betty are very kind to me
I have a fire in my Room
Every night it was so much
in this morning that Betty
Lighted her Candle at it,
we are sorry to hear your
Cousin Hannah is not Got
well yet, I shou’d have write
to her but am not Certain
where she is, I suppose by this
time you have Got your new
servants, I wish they may be
agreeable, I am very Busy with
Patch work & knitting my self stock
=ings, in the Evening I knit that
Coarse worsit accept my Dear
Mary Ann & Becky & James of my
sincere Good wishes Believe to be
your affecte Grandmother of Hatfield
Ann Hatfield to Mary-Ann, Elizabeth and James Nicholson, 28 November 1798
Grandmother writes to grandchildren – she is glad to have received their letters, is pleased to hear that they are well, and is glad to have received James’s kiss and love. She hopes they are behaving themselves well, enjoying their new home and new servants, hears they have a play room but hopes they are not playing all the time but also reading and governing their passions. The gentlemen who dined with them had spoken well of the children. The grandmother is being treated well – she has a fire in her room every night, and it is still warm in the morning. She is sorry to hear that Cousin Hannah has not recovered. In the evening she spends time knitting stockings and doing patch work.
Nicholson Family Papers
ENG 1041 f41
John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
1798
11
28
Houghton [England]
[England]
primary addressee
spirits (body part)
- reading
- recreation
childhood
happy
- disposition
- duty
- education
- self
consolation
other
spirits (body part)
- kissing
- reading
- recreation
childhood
- happy
- love (familial)
- disposition
- duty
- education
- self
other
spirits (body part)
- reading
- recreation
childhood
happy
- disposition
- duty
- education
- self
To Cite this Letter
Ann Hatfield to Mary-Ann, Elizabeth and James Nicholson, 28 November 1798, 28111798: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, Nicholson Family Papers, ENG 1041 f41
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.