I reci’d your letter along with a Ham
for which we return you our best thanks & as
the man who brought it return’d y^e next Day
I thought it perhaps might not be too soon
to answer yours – In which you ask about M^r Spen^r
I really must refer you to some other to in a
more distant part for any intelligence – it is rather
too dear for me to correspond with him as y^e
last thing I heard of him he was to set sail
for Portugal in an hour – So I can tell
you no more of him -------- Shoud you not take
it as trouble I must beg you will be so oblig^g
as to transcribe me y^t song you play call’d
Advice with the words – as the Gentleman
I learn of cannot procure it for me nor never
remember seeing it – I mean the notes of y^e
above as I think I shoud like to play it.
Papa Mamma Sister Miss Clarkson with
myself beg our kindest respects to M^r M^rs & Miss
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Hodson excuse haste as we are going to have
Doct^r Mitchell & his Lady this afternoon
I remain
Your affectionate
Friend R Clegg
Manchester
Decr 10 1783
My best Compliments attend M^rs Whitby’s
Family with your GrandMamma M^rs & Miss
Brown - - &c &c adieu write as soon as you can
do me the above favor also
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[change hand] D^r Mitchell died in Oxford Road Manchester 30 April
1824 in his 74^th year – M^rs M still survives
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Miss Hodson
Cuppins Lane
Chester

I reci’d your letter along with a Ham
for which we return you our best thanks & as
the man who brought it return’d y^e next Day
I thought it perhaps might not be too soon
to answer yours – In which you ask about M^r Spen^r
I really must refer you to some other to in a
more distant part for any intelligence – it is rather
too dear for me to correspond with him as y^e
last thing I heard of him he was to set sail
for Portugal in an hour – So I can tell
you no more of him -------- Shoud you not take
it as trouble I must beg you will be so oblig^g
as to transcribe me y^t song you play call’d
Advice with the words – as the Gentleman
I learn of cannot procure it for me nor never
remember seeing it – I mean the notes of y^e
above as I think I shoud like to play it.
Papa Mamma Sister Miss Clarkson with
myself beg our kindest respects to M^r M^rs & Miss
[new page]
Hodson excuse haste as we are going to have
Doct^r Mitchell & his Lady this afternoon
I remain
Your affectionate
Friend R Clegg
Manchester
Decr 10 1783
My best Compliments attend M^rs Whitby’s
Family with your GrandMamma M^rs & Miss
Brown - - &c &c adieu write as soon as you can
do me the above favor also
[new page]
[change hand] D^r Mitchell died in Oxford Road Manchester 30 April
1824 in his 74^th year – M^rs M still survives
[new page]
Miss Hodson
Cuppins Lane
Chester