Cossey July the 13^th 1786

My dearest Charlotte your Papa received your pretty letter
last post and is much obliged to you for it. It gives me pleasure
to see your kind solicitude about my health. At the same time
that it afflicts me to have given you so much uneasiness.
I hope you have received a long letter from me to prove to
you that I was well, and also the little parcel of books. It is
strange that they should be lost for I sent some by the same
conveyance a little while ago for Juilly & they arrived very
safe. I am now my dear quite well and your Papa has also got
rid of his ague by the help of the Bark. What a sweet girl you
are to think so much about us. I can assure you that your
sentiments are well returned and that I bless God for having given me
such a daughter. I believe we shall leave Cossey about the 10^th or 12^th
of next month. Then we must stay about a fortnight in or about
London to see my father and mother &c. After {^^that} we shall proceed
immediately to Paris. Your brothers are very impatient
but they have had 17 days vacance, so they ought to be a little
quiet. We shall bring {?Ned} to Paris. He reckons very much
upon your partiality for him which I hope will ever increase

when you see him as he is really of a most sweet disposition.
Always satisfied and cheerful, amusing himself as you used to
do with a thousand little things. Master Pitchford the
eldest who is returned from St Omer has being here some days
to play with Ned. They are exactly the same size tho
Pitchford is 14. He speaks French very well & knows Latin &
Greek I am told better than most boys of his age. By the
account the others give me of the college at St Omers I begin
to have a high opinion of it. As for the dress if you choose
the college to clothe them they are put into a light blue coat
such as we saw the boys in. If the parents like a better to buy
their things the {?pension} is so much less & you dress them as you
please. There are 150 boys there. 40 are French. I can't con[illeg]
what can make [illega] so ill behaved. It really hurts me. Young
Pitchford is to study Physick or Surgery under his father for
the present. He is a very clever boy. How are you my
dear since the departure of your friends? Where is Pelletier
gone to? & how many are you now in great school? I suppose

you will have some fine doings again at the Assumption
since you will not have a muslin gown. I hope at least you have
had an lutestring one. Apropos of Giles I don't know what
the man means and if he comes again should be glad that
the Mere Generale would speak to him. The shoes I had when
at Paris I paid for & have his bill & receipt now before
me. I told him then to make me 6 more pairs & to send
them over to England the first opportunity when L^dy Petre
returned you know I desired you to send for them & they
were not made. I have never heard of them since but the
black ones you say you paid for.
Therefore if he made to others I am
no ways indebted to him for them as he should have given me notice they
were made & sent if he has not sent them otherwise as I never
received or heard them I have nothing to answer for
about them. I should be glad to have the matter cleared up
besides it was since [illeg] that when Mere Generale paid
him for the black ones. He should not say he had made
others. You must write out your little album once
more as were some faults in that you sent me
occasioned by the hurry you were in that day pray let

the next be entirely correct written rather in a larger hand
& the paper not creased. Dated a Paris a Juliet 1786
Mr Simon staid but a week. He is gone to make a tour in
Scotland. The little Ja Ja is in perfect health. I am told she is a
prodigious fine girl, remarkably clever & sprightly. I had a
letter lately from Mr Browne. He wishes to go to Paris but

will not be yet. The general Mr Ed Jerningham &
my brother Henry are here & desire their love to you as do your
Pap and Neddy. Have you seen anything of Mde de Rotte Henriot
Adieu my dearest girl. Believe me your most affectionate Mother & Sincere Friend

[change of orientation]
France p^as p^d to London
Madmoiselle
A Mademoiselle Jerningham aux Dames
Ursulines Rue St Jacques
a Paris

Cossey July the 13^th 1786

My dearest Charlotte your Papa received your pretty letter
last post and is much obliged to you for it. It gives me pleasure
to see your kind solicitude about my health. At the same time
that it afflicts me to have given you so much uneasiness.
I hope you have received a long letter from me to prove to
you that I was well, and also the little parcel of books. It is
strange that they should be lost for I sent some by the same
conveyance a little while ago for Juilly & they arrived very
safe. I am now my dear quite well and your Papa has also got
rid of his ague by the help of the Bark. What a sweet girl you
are to think so much about us. I can assure you that your
sentiments are well returned and that I bless God for having given me
such a daughter. I believe we shall leave Cossey about the 10^th or 12^th
of next month. Then we must stay about a fortnight in or about
London to see my father and mother &c. After {^^that} we shall proceed
immediately to Paris. Your brothers are very impatient
but they have had 17 days vacance, so they ought to be a little
quiet. We shall bring {?Ned} to Paris. He reckons very much
upon your partiality for him which I hope will ever increase

when you see him as he is really of a most sweet disposition.
Always satisfied and cheerful, amusing himself as you used to
do with a thousand little things. Master Pitchford the
eldest who is returned from St Omer has being here some days
to play with Ned. They are exactly the same size though
Pitchford is 14. He speaks French very well & knows Latin &
Greek I am told better than most boys of his age. By the
account the others give me of the college at St Omers I begin
to have a high opinion of it. As for the dress if you choose
the college to clothe them they are put into a light blue coat
such as we saw the boys in. If the parents like a better to buy
their things the {?pension} is so much less & you dress them as you
please. There are 150 boys there. 40 are French. I can't con[illeg]
what can make [illega] so ill behaved. It really hurts me. Young
Pitchford is to study Physic or Surgery under his father for
the present. He is a very clever boy. How are you my
dear since the departure of your friends? Where is Pelletier
gone to? & how many are you now in great school? I suppose

you will have some fine doings again at the Assumption
since you will not have a muslin gown. I hope at least you have
had an lutestring one. Apropos of Giles I don't know what
the man means and if he comes again should be glad that
the Mere Generale would speak to him. The shoes I had when
at Paris I paid for & have his bill & receipt now before
me. I told him then to make me 6 more pairs & to send
them over to England the first opportunity when L^dy Petre
returned you know I desired you to send for them & they
were not made. I have never heard of them since but the
black ones you say you paid for.
Therefore if he made to others I am
no ways indebted to him for them as he should have given me notice they
were made & sent if he has not sent them otherwise as I never
received or heard them I have nothing to answer for
about them. I should be glad to have the matter cleared up
besides it was since [illeg] that when Mere Generale paid
him for the black ones. He should not say he had made
others. You must write out your little album once
more as were some faults in that you sent me
occasioned by the hurry you were in that day pray let

the next be entirely correct written rather in a larger hand
& the paper not creased. Dated a Paris a Juliet 1786
Mr Simon staid but a week. He is gone to make a tour in
Scotland. The little Ja Ja is in perfect health. I am told she is a
prodigious fine girl, remarkably clever & sprightly. I had a
letter lately from Mr Browne. He wishes to go to Paris but

will not be yet. The general Mr Ed Jerningham &
my brother Henry are here & desire their love to you as do your
Pap and Neddy. Have you seen anything of Mde de Rotte Henriot
Adieu my dearest girl. Believe me your most affectionate Mother & Sincere Friend

[change of orientation]
France p^as p^d to London
Madmoiselle
A Mademoiselle Jerningham aux Dames
Ursulines Rue St Jacques
a Paris