Travis Isle 12^th Nov^r 1804
Dear Mary Ann
I am glad to find
you do not stand upon Ceremony
with regard to letter writing I mean
by your sending me a second Epistle
before I answered your former one
which I should certainly have done
before this time, if a favourable oppor=
=tunity had offered itself of conveying
a letter to you by private hand.
We had a high flood here a few
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weeks ago which washed seventeen yards
of a new wall entirely away but it
is rebuilt again. Miss Roberts
and I go to M^r Hollands once a
week, to receive Lessons on the Globes,
they are the largest I ever saw.
When my Father was in London
he bought Jonathan and me a
great number of Haydins
Musical Publications which a very
valuable collection. I am
glad you were pleased with the cakes
I sent you we are much obliged to
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you for the box of Nuts, they proved
very good ones. My Father has
been to Preston since he returned
from London which makes the seventh
excursion he has taken this Summer
I am reading Thompsons Seasons
I think them very beautiful.
As I have to write to your
Grandmother; you must excuse
the brevity of this letter; being
assured that I shall always be happy
to hear from you I remain y^r Affection^te
Cousin
Eliz^th Hatfield
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Miss M A Nicholson
Gateacre
Near Liverpool

Travis Isle 12^th Nov^r 1804
Dear Mary Ann
I am glad to find
you do not stand upon Ceremony
with regard to letter writing I mean
by your sending me a second Epistle
before I answered your former one
which I should certainly have done
before this time, if a favourable oppor=
=tunity had offered itself of conveying
a letter to you by private hand.
We had a high flood here a few
[new page]
weeks ago which washed seventeen yards
of a new wall entirely away but it
is rebuilt again. Miss Roberts
and I go to M^r Hollands once a
week, to receive Lessons on the Globes,
they are the largest I ever saw.
When my Father was in London
he bought Jonathan and me a
great number of Haydns
Musical Publications which a very
valuable collection. I am
glad you were pleased with the cakes
I sent you we are much obliged to
[new page]
you for the box of Nuts, they proved
very good ones. My Father has
been to Preston since he returned
from London which makes the seventh
excursion he has taken this Summer
I am reading Thompsons Seasons
I think them very beautiful.
As I have to write to your
Grandmother; you must excuse
the brevity of this letter; being
assured that I shall always be happy
to hear from you I remain y^r Affection^te
Cousin
Eliz^th Hatfield
[new page]
Miss M A Nicholson
Gateacre
Near Liverpool