618 - Thomas Nicholson to Mary-Ann Nicholson, 16 June 1803
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My dear Mary Ann
Your Uncle Jonathan Hatfield
& I got to Great Houghton on Sunday last &
left your Grandmother very well & your Aunt
Abbatt in a very feeble state which at her
age it cannot be expected she will recover
from, we are now at Mr Turners whose
family we find well Betsey & Jonathan the two
youngest children we have seen we
have not been here above half an hour
& I am seated to write to you for the depar=
=ture of the first post that you may receive
this letter on Saturday & hear of our welfare
I was much disappointed not hearing from
you at Barnsley where I was yesterday I
blame the post, for I think you & Betsey &
Miss Roberts woud certainly write as I desired
I hope it is not owing to any indisposition
& am anxious to hear from you & trust I shall
when I arrive at Manchester on Sunday evening
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which we hope & shall endeavour to accomplish
but our horse is much galled by the Harness
not fitting well & the roads being in a very
bad state and makes travelling tedious.
Tis post time and I have only time to
say our friends at Houghton & here send you
love & good wishes & to assure you your Sister
& Brothers of my fondest affection deliver
my love Respects to Miss Roberts & say I
hope to hear from her at my arrival
at Manchester also from you Betsey & James
united farewell my dear daughter farewell
Ever your Affectionate Father
& Friend Thos Nicholson
My dear Mary Ann
Your Uncle Jonathan Hatfield
& I got to Great Houghton on Sunday last &
left your Grandmother very well & your Aunt
Abbatt in a very feeble state which at her
age it cannot be expected she will recover
from, we are now at Mr Turners whose
family we find well Betsey & Jonathan the two
youngest children we have seen we
have not been here above half an hour
& I am seated to write to you for the depar=
=ture of the first post that you may receive
this letter on Saturday & hear of our welfare
I was much disappointed not hearing from
you at Barnsley where I was yesterday I
blame the post, for I think you & Betsey &
Miss Roberts woud certainly write as I desired
I hope it is not owing to any indisposition
& am anxious to hear from you & trust I shall
when I arrive at Manchester on Sunday evening
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which we hope & shall endeavour to accomplish
but our horse is much galled by the Harness
not fitting well & the roads being in a very
bad state and makes travelling tedious.
Tis post time and I have only time to
say our friends at Houghton & here send you
love & good wishes & to assure you your Sister
& Brothers of my fondest affection deliver
my love Respects to Miss Roberts & say I
hope to hear from her at my arrival
at Manchester also from you Betsey & James
united farewell my dear daughter farewell
Ever your Affectionate Father
& Friend Thos Nicholson
Thomas Nicholson to Mary-Ann Nicholson, 16 June 1803
Providing an update on the health of her Grandmother and of Aunt Abbatt, providing extensive information about the post and how it provoked anxiety in him when he didn't hear from her, the horse is galled by an ill-fitting harness which is slowing them down.
Nicholson Family Papers
MSS 1041 1803 (83)
John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
1803
6
16
16 June 1803
Rotherham
[Yorkshire, England]
[??Lancashire??, England]
primary author
- sitting
- travel
- visiting
- writing
- affection
- apprehension
- love (parental)
- regret
- worried
- fatherhood
- parenthood
To Cite this Letter
Thomas Nicholson to Mary-Ann Nicholson, 16 June 1803, 1661803: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, Nicholson Family Papers, MSS 1041 1803 (83)
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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.