My dear M^rs Bateman
I rec^d your Letter with a parcel – M^rs Wilsons
Account with 3{^£}, 4{^s}, 0 – which I paid my Father, an acknowledgement
I shall bring with me – Likewise the several Account with M^r Jones
Shoemaker inclosed 2{^3}, 5{^s}, 6{^d} – upon Reckoning the Accounts together
I found they amounted to 2{^£}, 10{^s}, 0{^d} and your Slippers ordered would be
5{^s}/6{^d} more I wished to inform you of this which will be rectified
when I have the pleasure {^of seeing you} I shall settle the whole - & bring
Receipts accordingly I am much obliged by your kind Letter –
and your repeated Civilities to M^r D and my d^r Eliza. I
wish it was in my Power to return the Obligation in the manner
My Heart would dictate but a grateful sense I hope ever to
Retain – I am happy in hearing repeatedly of your Health &c –
Of M^rs Wilsons Miss Spear & our other Manchester Friends – We
Have not got my sister & Mary Ann from Liverpool tho latter
I think a good deal grown and Improved in many respects –
she is to stop here a while and my Sister Eliza is to return
with me. I have made a very long stay here much longer than
I purposed – But my time upon the whole has been spent very
agreeably – I expect M^r D to come for a few days and to Accom=
=pany home – I had thought of seeing him as to day – but this
morning brought me a Letter informing me business wou’d
prevent him being here till Wednesday next – I shou’d be
very much obliged in his absence if you cou’d conveniently
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call now and then at our House – I had yesterday very unex=
=pectedly the pleasure of seeing M^r & M^rs Roberts - & M^rs Edwards. My
Mother and I spent about ½ and hour with them at the White
Lion – they set of again this morning at 5 oClock to Shrewsbury
their Route in the whole before their return to Manchester will
be about 200 Miles – they travel in M^rs Edwards Carriage to
London – M^r Armitages Family are in tolerable health and the rest
of our Chester friends – all who know you beg their kind respects
M^rs Turner has been so delicate since her confinement she has
been obliged (after endeavouring six Weeks to be a Nurse) to put
her little Boy out to Nurse – she has been so favored as to meet
with a good one – in the Town – she frets very much at parting
with it – My Mother and the Rest of our Family are thro
Mercy well & beg to be remembered to your in the kindest
manner and to M^r & M^rs Clegg M^r Bateman M^r Spears Family
&c in which I beg to join & Love to your Sweet Boy –
Margaretta comes on delightfully she grows very fat & has walked
a few yards at a time frequently I hope before I return she
will turn out quite herself – I hope you will receive your
Slippers safe & that they will fit you - I gave very Particular
Orders
I remain
D^r M^rs Bateman
Your very affectionate
Mary Jane Durdon
Chester
June 23 1791
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M^rs Bateman
Levers Row

My dear M^rs Bateman
I rec^d your Letter with a parcel – M^rs Wilsons
Account with 3{^£}, 4{^s}, 0 – which I paid my Father, an acknowledgement
I shall bring with me – Likewise the several Account with M^r Jones
Shoemaker inclosed 2{^3}, 5{^s}, 6{^d} – upon Reckoning the Accounts together
I found they amounted to 2{^£}, 10{^s}, 0{^d} and your Slippers ordered would be
5{^s}/6{^d} more I wished to inform you of this which will be rectified
when I have the pleasure {^of seeing you} I shall settle the whole - & bring
Receipts accordingly I am much obliged by your kind Letter –
and your repeated Civilities to M^r D and my d^r Eliza. I
wish it was in my Power to return the Obligation in the manner
My Heart would dictate but a grateful sense I hope ever to
Retain – I am happy in hearing repeatedly of your Health &c –
Of M^rs Wilsons Miss Spear & our other Manchester Friends – We
Have not got my sister & Mary Ann from Liverpool tho latter
I think a good deal grown and Improved in many respects –
she is to stop here a while and my Sister Eliza is to return
with me. I have made a very long stay here much longer than
I purposed – But my time upon the whole has been spent very
agreeably – I expect M^r D to come for a few days and to Accom=
=pany home – I had thought of seeing him as to day – but this
morning brought me a Letter informing me business wou’d
prevent him being here till Wednesday next – I shou’d be
very much obliged in his absence if you cou’d conveniently
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call now and then at our House – I had yesterday very unex=
=pectedly the pleasure of seeing M^r & M^rs Roberts - & M^rs Edwards. My
Mother and I spent about ½ and hour with them at the White
Lion – they set of again this morning at 5 oClock to Shrewsbury
their Route in the whole before their return to Manchester will
be about 200 Miles – they travel in M^rs Edwards Carriage to
London – M^r Armitages Family are in tolerable health and the rest
of our Chester friends – all who know you beg their kind respects
M^rs Turner has been so delicate since her confinement she has
been obliged (after endeavouring six Weeks to be a Nurse) to put
her little Boy out to Nurse – she has been so favored as to meet
with a good one – in the Town – she frets very much at parting
with it – My Mother and the Rest of our Family are thro
Mercy well & beg to be remembered to your in the kindest
manner and to M^r & M^rs Clegg M^r Bateman M^r Spears Family
&c in which I beg to join & Love to your Sweet Boy –
Margaretta comes on delightfully she grows very fat & has walked
a few yards at a time frequently I hope before I return she
will turn out quite herself – I hope you will receive your
Slippers safe & that they will fit you - I gave very Particular
Orders
I remain
D^r M^rs Bateman
Your very affectionate
Mary Jane Durdon
Chester
June 23 1791
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M^rs Bateman
Levers Row