529 - Elizabeth Wilson to Rebekah Bateman, 17 June 1795
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My Dear Sister
London June 17 1795
I am very glad I can find so much time
as to answer your very welcome letter by Mr Buzzard –
had the opportunity happened last week I could not have
embraced it for the same reason you deferred writing to
me namely the want of servants I have mentioned in
Mamma’s letter that I have been without Cook near a
month & part of the time I had a great part of my
Brothers family to eat here as we were near their tem=
pory Warehouse it was convenient for them The maid
servants & footman were at Mrs Wilsons Fathers till they
could get a few necessaries together to cook a bit of meat
they have a small house over their Warehouse in Wood
Street but {^it} is such {^a} dirty place Mrs Joseph is chiefly at
Her Fathers she has bore her trouble with great spirits
indeed & what is very extraordinary she is no worse for her
fright although she is the famely way & then was but
about 2 months gone. I wish I could say the trouble
was sanctified to us all but alas impressions made by
such things soon wear away. I have this day received
[new page]
a Letter from Margery for the first time since she got to
Bolton (which to me is almost incredible to say) I have
been much hurt with the silence & had determined never to
write to them again till I had heard from some of them.
I find they intend coming to Gatley I hope it will be [damaged]
your & their mutual happiness I am glad to find you [?are}
so fond of the country. I wish I could now & then come
& see you now all is so green about you – but as that
cannot be I console myself with the idea of your coming
to see me. I assure you I shall be very happy to see
you in Wood Street if I am spared Mrs Mills seemed
much pleased to hear you meant to come up she says
you are a favourite. I hope nothing will happen to
prevent your journey – I am expecting to see my Dear
Papa & Mamma very soon now though I have not
ascertained the time I find you have at least weaned
your great girl I think it was high time you should
you was determined to make up for Thomas having the
Breast a short time. You ask me what I think
of the extravagant extraordinary prophecy of {^Mr} Brothers
I really have not read it but what I hear of it I
do not believe & now things have {^not} exactly come to pass
in his time I am confirmed in my unbelief. I under=
stand there was to have been an earthquake to day &
[new page]
many believed it if so there must have been some very [deleted]
strange feelings especially when about 11 o clock it grew so
exceeding dark that it threatned a violent storm – but it went
off again. I don’t know how it is but although I am such a
poor diffident creature these kind of things does not move me
but I in part attribute it to my insensibility I am much
more affected to hear a poor Child cry in the Street then with
all these false prophets say – through Mercy my Rebekah is
well & as hardly & weathered as {^any} little girl needs to be
If she had run in Gatley fields for the last 2 months she
could not have looked more so – I hear Mr Roscow has
lost his son Thomas & that there was [deleted] hope of [?his]
being a converted Man before his death I heard it my My[damaged]
Lewis for I scarce ever see him any where – I hear this
morning by a letter from Nancy Pearson that they are got
well to Sandbach thought she was very poorly when she
set off what with the fatigue of Body & Mind with packing
&c – she was not fit to travel but performed better then
expectation – I hope you will favor me with writing
soon I have heard so little lately from Manchester that I
have been ready to think I was forgot the wind does not
Blow Manchester friends here as often as usual I suppose
trade is not brisk [deleted] {^enough} – Mr Wilson joins me
in Love to yourself & Mr Bateman – Mrs Proctor & little one
are both doing well she & Betsey send their respects I remain
Your truly affectionate Sister E Wilson
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Mrs Bateman
Gatley Hall
Cheshire
London June 17 1795
I am very glad I can find so much time
as to answer your very welcome letter by Mr Buzzard –
had the opportunity happened last week I could not have
embraced it for the same reason you deferred writing to
me namely the want of servants I have mentioned in
Mamma’s letter that I have been without Cook near a
month & part of the time I had a great part of my
Brothers family to eat here as we were near their tem=
pory Warehouse it was convenient for them The maid
servants & footman were at Mrs Wilsons Fathers till they
could get a few necessaries together to cook a bit of meat
they have a small house over their Warehouse in Wood
Street but {^it} is such {^a} dirty place Mrs Joseph is chiefly at
Her Fathers she has bore her trouble with great spirits
indeed & what is very extraordinary she is no worse for her
fright although she is the famely way & then was but
about 2 months gone. I wish I could say the trouble
was sanctified to us all but alas impressions made by
such things soon wear away. I have this day received
[new page]
a Letter from Margery for the first time since she got to
Bolton (which to me is almost incredible to say) I have
been much hurt with the silence & had determined never to
write to them again till I had heard from some of them.
I find they intend coming to Gatley I hope it will be [damaged]
your & their mutual happiness I am glad to find you [?are}
so fond of the country. I wish I could now & then come
& see you now all is so green about you – but as that
cannot be I console myself with the idea of your coming
to see me. I assure you I shall be very happy to see
you in Wood Street if I am spared Mrs Mills seemed
much pleased to hear you meant to come up she says
you are a favourite. I hope nothing will happen to
prevent your journey – I am expecting to see my Dear
Papa & Mamma very soon now though I have not
ascertained the time I find you have at least weaned
your great girl I think it was high time you should
you was determined to make up for Thomas having the
Breast a short time. You ask me what I think
of the extravagant extraordinary prophecy of {^Mr} Brothers
I really have not read it but what I hear of it I
do not believe & now things have {^not} exactly come to pass
in his time I am confirmed in my unbelief. I under=
stand there was to have been an earthquake to day &
[new page]
many believed it if so there must have been some very [deleted]
strange feelings especially when about 11 o clock it grew so
exceeding dark that it threatned a violent storm – but it went
off again. I don’t know how it is but although I am such a
poor diffident creature these kind of things does not move me
but I in part attribute it to my insensibility I am much
more affected to hear a poor Child cry in the Street then with
all these false prophets say – through Mercy my Rebekah is
well & as hardly & weathered as {^any} little girl needs to be
If she had run in Gatley fields for the last 2 months she
could not have looked more so – I hear Mr Roscow has
lost his son Thomas & that there was [deleted] hope of [?his]
being a converted Man before his death I heard it my My[damaged]
Lewis for I scarce ever see him any where – I hear this
morning by a letter from Nancy Pearson that they are got
well to Sandbach thought she was very poorly when she
set off what with the fatigue of Body & Mind with packing
&c – she was not fit to travel but performed better then
expectation – I hope you will favor me with writing
soon I have heard so little lately from Manchester that I
have been ready to think I was forgot the wind does not
Blow Manchester friends here as often as usual I suppose
trade is not brisk [deleted] {^enough} – Mr Wilson joins me
in Love to yourself & Mr Bateman – Mrs Proctor & little one
are both doing well she & Betsey send their respects I remain
Your truly affectionate Sister E Wilson
[new page]
Mrs Bateman
Gatley Hall
Cheshire
My Dear Sister
London June 17 1795
I am very glad I can find so much time
as to answer your very welcome letter by Mr Buzzard –
had the opportunity happened last week I could not have
embraced it for the same reason you deferred writing to
me namely the want of servants I have mentioned in
Mamma’s letter that I have been without Cook near a
month & part of the time I had a great part of my
Brothers family to eat here as we were near their tem=
pory Warehouse it was convenient for them The maid
servants & footman were at Mrs Wilsons Fathers till they
could get a few necessaries together to cook a bit of meat
they have a small house over their Warehouse in Wood
Street but {^it} is such {^a} dirty place Mrs Joseph is chiefly at
Her Fathers she has bore her trouble with great spirits
indeed & what is very extraordinary she is no worse for her
fright although she is the famely way & then was but
about 2 months gone. I wish I could say the trouble
was sanctified to us all but alas impressions made by
such things soon wear away. I have this day received
[new page]
a Letter from Margery for the first time since she got to
Bolton (which to me is almost incredible to say) I have
been much hurt with the silence & had determined never to
write to them again till I had heard from some of them.
I find they intend coming to Gatley I hope it will be [damaged]
your & their mutual happiness I am glad to find you [?are}
so fond of the country. I wish I could now & then come
& see you now all is so green about you – but as that
cannot be I console myself with the idea of your coming
to see me. I assure you I shall be very happy to see
you in Wood Street if I am spared Mrs Mills seemed
much pleased to hear you meant to come up she says
you are a favourite. I hope nothing will happen to
prevent your journey – I am expecting to see my Dear
Papa & Mamma very soon now though I have not
ascertained the time I find you have at least weaned
your great girl I think it was high time you should
you was determined to make up for Thomas having the
Breast a short time. You ask me what I think
of the extravagant extraordinary prophecy of {^Mr} Brothers
I really have not read it but what I hear of it I
do not believe & now things have {^not} exactly come to pass
in his time I am confirmed in my unbelief. I under=
stand there was to have been an earthquake to day &
[new page]
many believed it if so there must have been some very [deleted]
strange feelings especially when about 11 o clock it grew so
exceeding dark that it threatned a violent storm – but it went
off again. I don’t know how it is but although I am such a
poor diffident creature these kind of things does not move me
but I in part attribute it to my insensibility I am much
more affected to hear a poor Child cry in the Street then with
all these false prophets say – through Mercy my Rebekah is
well & as hardly & weathered as {^any} little girl needs to be
If she had run in Gatley fields for the last 2 months she
could not have looked more so – I hear Mr Roscow has
lost his son Thomas & that there was [deleted] hope of [?his]
being a converted Man before his death I heard it my My[damaged]
Lewis for I scarce ever see him any where – I hear this
morning by a letter from Nancy Pearson that they are got
well to Sandbach thought she was very poorly when she
set off what with the fatigue of Body & Mind with packing
&c – she was not fit to travel but performed better then
expectation – I hope you will favor me with writing
soon I have heard so little lately from Manchester that I
have been ready to think I was forgot the wind does not
Blow Manchester friends here as often as usual I suppose
trade is not brisk [deleted] {^enough} – Mr Wilson joins me
in Love to yourself & Mr Bateman – Mrs Proctor & little one
are both doing well she & Betsey send their respects I remain
Your truly affectionate Sister E Wilson
[new page]
Mrs Bateman
Gatley Hall
Cheshire
London June 17 1795
I am very glad I can find so much time
as to answer your very welcome letter by Mr Buzzard –
had the opportunity happened last week I could not have
embraced it for the same reason you deferred writing to
me namely the want of servants I have mentioned in
Mamma’s letter that I have been without Cook near a
month & part of the time I had a great part of my
Brothers family to eat here as we were near their tem=
pory Warehouse it was convenient for them The maid
servants & footman were at Mrs Wilsons Fathers till they
could get a few necessaries together to cook a bit of meat
they have a small house over their Warehouse in Wood
Street but {^it} is such {^a} dirty place Mrs Joseph is chiefly at
Her Fathers she has bore her trouble with great spirits
indeed & what is very extraordinary she is no worse for her
fright although she is the famely way & then was but
about 2 months gone. I wish I could say the trouble
was sanctified to us all but alas impressions made by
such things soon wear away. I have this day received
[new page]
a Letter from Margery for the first time since she got to
Bolton (which to me is almost incredible to say) I have
been much hurt with the silence & had determined never to
write to them again till I had heard from some of them.
I find they intend coming to Gatley I hope it will be [damaged]
your & their mutual happiness I am glad to find you [?are}
so fond of the country. I wish I could now & then come
& see you now all is so green about you – but as that
cannot be I console myself with the idea of your coming
to see me. I assure you I shall be very happy to see
you in Wood Street if I am spared Mrs Mills seemed
much pleased to hear you meant to come up she says
you are a favourite. I hope nothing will happen to
prevent your journey – I am expecting to see my Dear
Papa & Mamma very soon now though I have not
ascertained the time I find you have at least weaned
your great girl I think it was high time you should
you was determined to make up for Thomas having the
Breast a short time. You ask me what I think
of the extravagant extraordinary prophecy of {^Mr} Brothers
I really have not read it but what I hear of it I
do not believe & now things have {^not} exactly come to pass
in his time I am confirmed in my unbelief. I under=
stand there was to have been an earthquake to day &
[new page]
many believed it if so there must have been some very [deleted]
strange feelings especially when about 11 o clock it grew so
exceeding dark that it threatned a violent storm – but it went
off again. I don’t know how it is but although I am such a
poor diffident creature these kind of things does not move me
but I in part attribute it to my insensibility I am much
more affected to hear a poor Child cry in the Street then with
all these false prophets say – through Mercy my Rebekah is
well & as hardly & weathered as {^any} little girl needs to be
If she had run in Gatley fields for the last 2 months she
could not have looked more so – I hear Mr Roscow has
lost his son Thomas & that there was [deleted] hope of [?his]
being a converted Man before his death I heard it my My[damaged]
Lewis for I scarce ever see him any where – I hear this
morning by a letter from Nancy Pearson that they are got
well to Sandbach thought she was very poorly when she
set off what with the fatigue of Body & Mind with packing
&c – she was not fit to travel but performed better then
expectation – I hope you will favor me with writing
soon I have heard so little lately from Manchester that I
have been ready to think I was forgot the wind does not
Blow Manchester friends here as often as usual I suppose
trade is not brisk [deleted] {^enough} – Mr Wilson joins me
in Love to yourself & Mr Bateman – Mrs Proctor & little one
are both doing well she & Betsey send their respects I remain
Your truly affectionate Sister E Wilson
[new page]
Mrs Bateman
Gatley Hall
Cheshire
Details
Elizabeth Wilson to Rebekah Bateman, 17 June 1795
Expressing happiness that she has more time this week than she has in recent weeks, she has had her brother to stay to save him living over his warehouse which is dirty and small, providing information of Mrs Joseph's health following a fright, making arrangements for Rebekah to visit, thinking about Mr Brothers' prophecy and how she is more affected by the sight of a poor child in the street than she is by false prophets, providing an update on Nancy Pearson's frail health.
Bateman Family Papers
OSB MSS 32 Box 2, Folder 36 (40)
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
1795
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June 17 1795
London
[England]
Mrs Bateman, Gatley Hall, Cheshire
[England]
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To Cite this Letter
Elizabeth Wilson to Rebekah Bateman, 17 June 1795, 1761795: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Bateman Family Papers, OSB MSS 32 Box 2, Folder 36 (40)
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Material Identities, Social Bodies: Embodiment in British Letters c.1680-1820. Compiled by: Karen Harvey, Helen Esfandiary, Sarah Fox, Emily Vine, University of Birmingham. Project funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2021-2025, Ref. RPG-2020-163), https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk.