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Travis-Isle Decem^br 5^th
1798
E Hatfield
to M A N

Dear Cousin Mary Ann

I was very glad to receive a
letter from you – Miss Hannah Roberts is
coming to live with you and she says she will
give you this letter – Jonathan is well &
sends his love to you and Betsy and little James
and he thinks James a very fat Boy – I wish
you would all come to Travis Isle again &
we would play nicely together, have you
seen my Aunt Hannah since she has been at
Liverpool are you not sorry she is so poorly do
you know when she will return home again I should
be very glad to see her – How does your Father
and Mother do – I will come to Gateacre when
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Papa will give me leave which will be soon I
hope – Miss Roberts is very well & desires
her love to you all – When you see Sam
tell him Papa will come for him in a fortnight
do not think I am very glad he his coming
home it will be a very short time he will have to
stay with us. I am glad you have so nice a
garden to play in do you often play in it
do you ever see {^^Tom} through your windows at play
in the road – your Grandmother told me she
should stay at Houghton all the winter & my Aunt
Mary had a letter from her she was very well –
- Tom often says In his letters that he his
well and happy do you think he his
I will send you your Bishop, dolls bonnets, &
little book, which you left here – Papa’s cold
is better, but not quite well yet, Jonathan &
I have not had a cold this winter
give my love to your Father & Mother
I believe me y^r affecti Cousin
Betsy Hatfield

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Travis-Isle Decem^br 5^th
1798
E Hatfield
to M A N

Dear Cousin Mary Ann

I was very glad to receive a
letter from you – Miss Hannah Roberts is
coming to live with you and she says she will
give you this letter – Jonathan is well &
sends his love to you and Betsy and little James
and he thinks James a very fat Boy – I wish
you would all come to Travis Isle again &
we would play nicely together, have you
seen my Aunt Hannah since she has been at
Liverpool are you not sorry she is so poorly do
you know when she will return home again I should
be very glad to see her – How does your Father
and Mother do – I will come to Gateacre when
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Papa will give me leave which will be soon I
hope – Miss Roberts is very well & desires
her love to you all – When you see Sam
tell him Papa will come for him in a fortnight
do not think I am very glad he his coming
home it will be a very short time he will have to
stay with us. I am glad you have so nice a
garden to play in do you often play in it
do you ever see {^^Tom} through your windows at play
in the road – your Grandmother told me she
should stay at Houghton all the winter & my Aunt
Mary had a letter from her she was very well –
- Tom often says In his letters that he his
well and happy do you think he his
I will send you your Bishop, dolls bonnets, &
little book, which you left here – Papa’s cold
is better, but not quite well yet, Jonathan &
I have not had a cold this winter
give my love to your Father & Mother
I believe me y^r affectionate Cousin
Betsy Hatfield