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Addlestone Common.
Dec th5 th1804.

My dear Aunt
I am constrained to take up my
Pen on the painful subject of your
last letter: though I am pleased with the
idea of writing to you, yet the occasion
of it robs me of my due! My poor dear
Grandmother is very ill, but with the
blessing of Providence I hope what she
takes will restore her to us a little longer
to bless, & praise Him here! Her strength
decays daily, & she is much reduced;
scarcely any thing that she says can be uttered
without bringing on sickness which is almost
every time she takes food, & makes her
extremely weak. We know not the Lords
appointed time, but that is the best!

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& when this is remembered we may say,
forgive the thought which lingers here
below! The soul must soar e'er long
to its native skies, but when, we know
not — it is pleasant for us to have her here
but she would be happier above among
the redeemed! — than with such frail
worms as we. It is a great mercy that
she is in no pain of Body at present,
there is great reason to thanks God for
this! How many suffer the keenest
pangs in their last hours! This text is
greatly impressed on her mind "Call upon
me in the Day of trouble, & I will
deliver thee; & thou shall glorify me"!
She repeated this to me in the Night
before last with much feeling!
I will write to you again my dear Aunt
when I can, at present this [illeg] may
may serve to shew you the the state of
health my always kind Grandmother is
now in: I mean to write as soon as

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I have finished yours, to my Mother
& now believe me ever your truly
Dutiful &
Affectionate Niece
Marianne Whittingham

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Whittingham
CHERTSEY 1,9
9
8 Mrs Fletcher
Maidly Shipnall
Near Shropshire

3305 - Marianne Whittingham to Mary Fletcher, 5 December 1804