Dear Miss Hodson
I had intended writing on saturday to let you
know how I got home but thought it woud be needless as you woud
not have it before Monday – however thro tender mercy which was
more than my desert I got safe home on friday evening exactly
at 6 ^oClock & found my Mamma Aunt Speak & Aunt Clegg at
y^e next door but poorly my Mamma was indeed y^e best of them
Aunt C was just in y^e same way as when you was with
us but brought weaker than before she is still confined to
her room & unable to walk about – I went on saturday
afternoon to M^r Priestlys – “So says he well Chester &
how does Chester fare with thee thou hast had brave
weather this last week to walk on y^e walls it was very
comfortable for thee was it not?” – M^r P is very well & his
Lady is very stout but very big indeed – will you be so
Kind as to tell M^r Hilditch M^r P says he has read y^e book
& asked me if I shoud like to read it so I made so free
as to take it & intend giving {^it} y^e reading & sending it by
some opportunity if agreeable [deleted] & M^r Hilditch
can spare it – M^r & M^rs Dinwiddie came to Manchester
on saturday evening when y^e Bells began to ring tho’
they were not permitted in Leeds – It was a {?stole} wedding
at last & unknown to her Mamma – she is a most
agreeable Lady by all accounts her leaving Leeds is univer=
[change hand] M^r Dinwiddie married Miss Wilkinson of Leeds an heiress
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=sally regretted – they did not make their appearance at {?meeting}
as they were not in readiness but went to Gatley to M^r [damaged]
to hear M^r Pendleburry who was took with a {?sirfit} of y^e [damaged]
& thereby rendered unfit to preach so M^r Prieestly went [ damaged]
to Preach for him in y^e afternoon & at night & we had
a stranger at Cannon St – M^rs Medley is at at our house
she came on saturday & goes tomorrow – she was last night
at supper at M^r Dinwiddies so my Papa went to fetch
her & got a salute of y^e new Bride he says she is very
free & beg’d our company in a free way without any
form – they see company on Tuesday & Wednesday – My Papa
has been oblig’d to put off going {^till} Wednesday on account of
business – I believe I am to go to {?Rattcliffe} to see my
Aunt Richardson who is very ill tomorrow – M^r Rich^son
is worse than ever poor thing I am very sorry for her
she has a deal of trouble in this life I hope it will be
blest to her & be a means of striving her up to seek happin=
=ness where tis only to found – twill then be a sanctified
rod in y^e hand of a heavenly father who knows we are but
dust & pitys as a father his children those y^t love him.
My Papa & Mamma desire their respects to M^r & M^rs Hodson
and be so kind as tell your Papa y^e soap is never come &
understood him he had sent it perhaps it may be my mis=
=take. – Pray present my best respects & thanks for all favor
shewn to one who is unworthy of them – accept kind love
yourself [deleted] with comp^ts to your Cousins Whitbys – {?Bro}
&c with Sister Sarah & Ann & your Brother when you write
My Aunt Martha, Spears, Clegg, with Sisters Betty & Molly
Thomas – beg their respects – Molly Livesey is much oblig’d
to M^rs Hodson for so unexpected a favor as y^e handkerchief
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She seem’d exceeding glad of it indeed. I saw Lucy as I was
coming from y^e Boat she is very {^well} as is Miss H & M^r J {^John} Hope
is going to be married what a changeable world this is
{?niver} at one stay – some are seeking happiness in one thing
& some in another – I drank tea at my Uncle Jos
Yesterday & was telling how kind M^rs Acton was to us
& I said she was very agreeable & wish’d M^r Kirkham
woud have her Ah says my Uncle but he never will
{?her} says he (what I was very sorry to hear) He delights
in nothing but his Books &c – which is an instance of
y^e truth of what I was before observing – May you &
I seek it our happiness in Jesus – y^e rock of ages from
which y^e storms of a present life can never beat us
is y^e sincere desire of your
affectionate
Friend R Clegg
Manchester
Aug^st 12 1782
I beg you will write soon & tell me
M^rs H hand is. I assure you Miss H
nobody met me at y^e Boat but sister &
[damaged]
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Miss Hodson
M^r Hodson’s
Cuppins Lane
Chester

Dear Miss Hodson
I had intended writing on saturday to let you
know how I got home but thought it woud be needless as you woud
not have it before Monday – however thro tender mercy which was
more than my desert I got safe home on friday evening exactly
at 6 ^oClock & found my Mamma Aunt Speak & Aunt Clegg at
y^e next door but poorly my Mamma was indeed y^e best of them
Aunt C was just in y^e same way as when you was with
us but brought weaker than before she is still confined to
her room & unable to walk about – I went on saturday
afternoon to M^r Priestlys – “So says he well Chester &
how does Chester fare with thee thou hast had brave
weather this last week to walk on y^e walls it was very
comfortable for thee was it not?” – M^r P is very well & his
Lady is very stout but very big indeed – will you be so
Kind as to tell M^r Hilditch M^r P says he has read y^e book
& asked me if I shoud like to read it so I made so free
as to take it & intend giving {^it} y^e reading & sending it by
some opportunity if agreeable [deleted] & M^r Hilditch
can spare it – M^r & M^rs Dinwiddie came to Manchester
on saturday evening when y^e Bells began to ring tho’
they were not permitted in Leeds – It was a {?stole} wedding
at last & unknown to her Mamma – she is a most
agreeable Lady by all accounts her leaving Leeds is univer=
[change hand] M^r Dinwiddie married Miss Wilkinson of Leeds an heiress
[new page]
=sally regretted – they did not make their appearance at {?meeting}
as they were not in readiness but went to Gatley to M^r [damaged]
to hear M^r Pendleburry who was took with a {?sirfit} of y^e [damaged]
& thereby rendered unfit to preach so M^r Prieestly went [ damaged]
to Preach for him in y^e afternoon & at night & we had
a stranger at Cannon St – M^rs Medley is at at our house
she came on saturday & goes tomorrow – she was last night
at supper at M^r Dinwiddies so my Papa went to fetch
her & got a salute of y^e new Bride he says she is very
free & beg’d our company in a free way without any
form – they see company on Tuesday & Wednesday – My Papa
has been oblig’d to put off going {^till} Wednesday on account of
business – I believe I am to go to {?Rattcliffe} to see my
Aunt Richardson who is very ill tomorrow – M^r Rich^son
is worse than ever poor thing I am very sorry for her
she has a deal of trouble in this life I hope it will be
blest to her & be a means of striving her up to seek happin=
=ness where tis only to found – twill then be a sanctified
rod in y^e hand of a heavenly father who knows we are but
dust & pitys as a father his children those y^t love him.
My Papa & Mamma desire their respects to M^r & M^rs Hodson
and be so kind as tell your Papa y^e soap is never come &
understood him he had sent it perhaps it may be my mis=
=take. – Pray present my best respects & thanks for all favor
shewn to one who is unworthy of them – accept kind love
yourself [deleted] with comp^ts to your Cousins Whitbys – {?Bro}
&c with Sister Sarah & Ann & your Brother when you write
My Aunt Martha, Spears, Clegg, with Sisters Betty & Molly
Thomas – beg their respects – Molly Livesey is much oblig’d
to M^rs Hodson for so unexpected a favor as y^e handkerchief
[new page]
She seem’d exceeding glad of it indeed. I saw Lucy as I was
coming from y^e Boat she is very {^well} as is Miss H & M^r J {^John} Hope
is going to be married what a changeable world this is
{?niver} at one stay – some are seeking happiness in one thing
& some in another – I drank tea at my Uncle Jos
Yesterday & was telling how kind M^rs Acton was to us
& I said she was very agreeable & wish’d M^r Kirkham
woud have her Ah says my Uncle but he never will
{?her} says he (what I was very sorry to hear) He delights
in nothing but his Books &c – which is an instance of
y^e truth of what I was before observing – May you &
I seek it our happiness in Jesus – y^e rock of ages from
which y^e storms of a present life can never beat us
is y^e sincere desire of your
affectionate
Friend R Clegg
Manchester
Aug^st 12 1782
I beg you will write soon & tell me
M^rs H hand is. I assure you Miss H
nobody met me at y^e Boat but sister &
[damaged]
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Miss Hodson
M^r Hodson’s
Cuppins Lane
Chester