Travis Isle 22^nd Decr 1804
My dear Mary Ann & Elizabeth
It will my dear girls I
doubt not give you pleasure to hear of our safe arrival
at Manchester about 6 o’clock on Wednesday evening, we were
delayed a long time in Warrington at the Red Lion, the
house being quite full of company we coud not get a
chaise so soon as we wished & it was quite dark when we
got to Pendleton Turnpike, where we dropt Will^m Duckworth
& were obliged to get a person at the turnpike to walk
with him to Broomhill. I found my uncle much
better, & he continues mending, your friends here are
all well, your uncle Hatfield much better than {^I} expected
to have found him. I went with your cousins to the
circus on Thursday evening to see some feats of Horseman=
=ship we drank tea at M^r Meaney’s they made parti=
=cular enquiries after all of you. Will you tell your
father that the letter I troubled him with to the post-
-office on Saturday last did not reach Manchester ‘till
Wednesday, & had not the Liverpool post mark till Monday
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I mention this circumstance because I fear it was owing
to some omission on Charles’s part & think it proper your
father should know, lest the same thing shoud happen with
a letter of greater moment. It will always afford me
great pleasure my dear girls to hear from you, & be assured
that pleasure will be greatly enhanced by account of your
increasing comfort & happiness. Will you beg my kind
respects to your father, Grandmother, & M^r Shepherds family &
my affectionate love to yours brothers & sister accept the
same my dear girls from your truly affect^ate friend
Han^h Roberts
Your cousins desires
their love to you

Travis Isle 22^nd Decr 1804
My dear Mary Ann & Elizabeth
It will my dear girls I
doubt not give you pleasure to hear of our safe arrival
at Manchester about 6 o’clock on Wednesday evening, we were
delayed a long time in Warrington at the Red Lion, the
house being quite full of company we coud not get a
chaise so soon as we wished & it was quite dark when we
got to Pendleton Turnpike, where we dropt Will^m Duckworth
& were obliged to get a person at the turnpike to walk
with him to Broomhill. I found my uncle much
better, & he continues mending, your friends here are
all well, your uncle Hatfield much better than {^I} expected
to have found him. I went with your cousins to the
circus on Thursday evening to see some feats of Horseman=
=ship we drank tea at M^r Meaney’s they made parti=
=cular enquiries after all of you. Will you tell your
father that the letter I troubled him with to the post-
-office on Saturday last did not reach Manchester ‘till
Wednesday, & had not the Liverpool post mark till Monday
[new page]
I mention this circumstance because I fear it was owing
to some omission on Charles’s part & think it proper your
father should know, lest the same thing shoud happen with
a letter of greater moment. It will always afford me
great pleasure my dear girls to hear from you, & be assured
that pleasure will be greatly enhanced by account of your
increasing comfort & happiness. Will you beg my kind
respects to your father, Grandmother, & M^r Shepherds family &
my affectionate love to yours brothers & sister accept the
same my dear girls from your truly affect^ate friend
Han^h Roberts
Your cousins desires
their love to you