356 - Thomas Bateman (junior) to William Bateman, 6 July 1809
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Liverpool 6th July 1809
Dear Brother
You desired me to write to you
to let you know how we go on here, we are much upon
the same pace as when you were here, only very often
jostled out of the road by my Fathers fretful tempers.
My Uncle gave a very good acct
of you, that youwere {^are} very attentive to business
tho are very often threatened with bankruptcy by
Father on account of the very expensive way of our
houskeeping &c &C, by this I suppose business is very
bad at Manchester.
My sister had a letter
from a Miss Watson at her school which she left on
the sideboard and when she was gone I read it,
by this letter it seems your affairs are very
well known in London, for about the middle of
the letter she says “Send me word when your Bror
is to be married, and if you like the young lady,
if she is handsome &c”. We all went to Runcorn
on Tuesday with Miteyard to fetch home his wife
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there was a great stir amongst the American Sailors
the other day for it was the anniversary of their
independence so they went about with ribbands in
their hats, but about two oclock in the afternoon
on board one of the vessels they had put the
English flag under the American at wch the carpenters
took offence and tore the American flag & made a
great noise so that the Mayor came running
down to stop it but the Carpenters attacked his [illeg]
and put him to flight after giving him a blow or
two with half bricks and his coat completely covered
with dirt, he raised the soldiers but no harm was
done; so this is the way we go on in Lpool.
I remain dear Bror
Yours very sincerely
Thos Bateman
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Mr Wm Bateman Junr
Mess Thos & Wm Bateman’s
Manchester
Dear Brother
You desired me to write to you
to let you know how we go on here, we are much upon
the same pace as when you were here, only very often
jostled out of the road by my Fathers fretful tempers.
My Uncle gave a very good acct
of you, that you
tho are very often threatened with bankruptcy by
Father on account of the very expensive way of our
houskeeping &c &C, by this I suppose business is very
bad at Manchester.
My sister had a letter
from a Miss Watson at her school which she left on
the sideboard and when she was gone I read it,
by this letter it seems your affairs are very
well known in London, for about the middle of
the letter she says “Send me word when your Bror
is to be married, and if you like the young lady,
if she is handsome &c”. We all went to Runcorn
on Tuesday with Miteyard to fetch home his wife
[new page]
there was a great stir amongst the American Sailors
the other day for it was the anniversary of their
independence so they went about with ribbands in
their hats, but about two oclock in the afternoon
on board one of the vessels they had put the
English flag under the American at wch the carpenters
took offence and tore the American flag & made a
great noise so that the Mayor came running
down to stop it but the Carpenters attacked his [illeg]
and put him to flight after giving him a blow or
two with half bricks and his coat completely covered
with dirt, he raised the soldiers but no harm was
done; so this is the way we go on in Lpool.
I remain dear Bror
Yours very sincerely
Thos Bateman
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Mr Wm Bateman Junr
Mess Thos & Wm Bateman’s
Manchester
Liverpool 6th July 1809
Dear Brother
You desired me to write to you
to let you know how we go on here, we are much upon
the same pace as when you were here, only very often
jostled out of the road by my Fathers fretful tempers.
My Uncle gave a very good acct
of you, that youwere {^are} very attentive to business
tho are very often threatened with bankruptcy by
Father on account of the very expensive way of our
houskeeping &c &C, by this I suppose business is very
bad at Manchester.
My sister had a letter
from a Miss Watson at her school which she left on
the sideboard and when she was gone I read it,
by this letter it seems your affairs are very
well known in London, for about the middle of
the letter she says “Send me word when your Bror
is to be married, and if you like the young lady,
if she is handsome &c”. We all went to Runcorn
on Tuesday with Miteyard to fetch home his wife
[new page]
there was a great stir amongst the American Sailors
the other day for it was the anniversary of their
independence so they went about with ribbands in
their hats, but about two oclock in the afternoon
on board one of the vessels they had put the
English flag under the American at wch the carpenters
took offence and tore the American flag & made a
great noise so that the Mayor came running
down to stop it but the Carpenters attacked his [illeg]
and put him to flight after giving him a blow or
two with half bricks and his coat completely covered
with dirt, he raised the soldiers but no harm was
done; so this is the way we go on in Lpool.
I remain dear Bror
Yours very sincerely
Thos Bateman
[new page]
Mr Wm Bateman Junr
Mess Thos & Wm Bateman’s
Manchester
Dear Brother
You desired me to write to you
to let you know how we go on here, we are much upon
the same pace as when you were here, only very often
jostled out of the road by my Fathers fretful tempers.
My Uncle gave a very good acct
of you, that you
tho are very often threatened with bankruptcy by
Father on account of the very expensive way of our
houskeeping &c &C, by this I suppose business is very
bad at Manchester.
My sister had a letter
from a Miss Watson at her school which she left on
the sideboard and when she was gone I read it,
by this letter it seems your affairs are very
well known in London, for about the middle of
the letter she says “Send me word when your Bror
is to be married, and if you like the young lady,
if she is handsome &c”. We all went to Runcorn
on Tuesday with Miteyard to fetch home his wife
[new page]
there was a great stir amongst the American Sailors
the other day for it was the anniversary of their
independence so they went about with ribbands in
their hats, but about two oclock in the afternoon
on board one of the vessels they had put the
English flag under the American at wch the carpenters
took offence and tore the American flag & made a
great noise so that the Mayor came running
down to stop it but the Carpenters attacked his [illeg]
and put him to flight after giving him a blow or
two with half bricks and his coat completely covered
with dirt, he raised the soldiers but no harm was
done; so this is the way we go on in Lpool.
I remain dear Bror
Yours very sincerely
Thos Bateman
[new page]
Mr Wm Bateman Junr
Mess Thos & Wm Bateman’s
Manchester
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Thomas Bateman (junior) to William Bateman, 6 July 1809
Informing him of their father's fretful tempers, his threats to bankrupt William over the expense of his household, William's business affairs, secretly reading his sister's letters, and details of a disturbance in Liverpool involving the mayor and some American sailors.
Bateman Family Papers
OSB MSS 32 Box 2, Folder 15 [9]
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
1809
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6th July 1809
Liverpool
[Lancashire, England]
Mr Wm Bateman Junr, Mess Thos & Wm Bateman's, Manchester
[Lancashire, England]
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