Travis Isle Jan^y 29^th 1805
E Hatfield to MAN
Rec^d: Feb^y 2^nd
Ans^d Feb^y 23^rd
Dear Mary Ann
You will think me
neglectful for omitting to answer your
last letter by the return of M^rs
Shepperd to Gateacre, and I know
not what to plead as an excuse,
unless it was the want of leisure,
but I hope to make amends for it
now by writing you a long letter
by my Cousin Millicent Nicholson
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who returns to the Park on Friday.
Miss Hannah Roberts is gone to
M^r Philips’s and I believe she
will come to Manchester next week,
to see M^r and M^rs Roberts who are
both much indisposed. We had
a Dance at our House about a month
ago, it consisted of Thirty Children
who dined here and spent the day,
we began to Dance at 3 o’clock and
continued so doing till nine in the
evening; when most of our party left
us. My Father set off on business
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to Stone on Monday Evening we expect
him home to night. The roads
are so bad in Yorkshire, in consequence
of the great quantity of Snow that
has fallen there, that one of the
Coaches was over-turned three times
in coming to Manchester, which
much render travelling in Yorkshire
very dangerous at this Season of the
year. My Grandfather seems
to bear the cold of Winters very well
and I think is nearly as stout as
he was before his last illness.
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Joins in kind remembrances to all
friends at Gateacre; and with this I
Miss M A Nicholson
Gateacre
Near Liverpool
Pr Favour Miss Nicholson
must conclude hoping you will accept
the love of your Affectionate Cousin E Hatfield
PS Tom desires his best love

Travis Isle Jan^y 29^th 1805
E Hatfield to MAN
Rec^d: Feb^y 2^nd
Ans^d Feb^y 23^rd
Dear Mary Ann
You will think me
neglectful for omitting to answer your
last letter by the return of M^rs
Shepperd to Gateacre, and I know
not what to plead as an excuse,
unless it was the want of leisure,
but I hope to make amends for it
now by writing you a long letter
by my Cousin Millicent Nicholson
[new page]
who returns to the Park on Friday.
Miss Hannah Roberts is gone to
M^r Philips’s and I believe she
will come to Manchester next week,
to see M^r and M^rs Roberts who are
both much indisposed. We had
a Dance at our House about a month
ago, it consisted of Thirty Children
who dined here and spent the day,
we began to Dance at 3 o’clock and
continued so doing till nine in the
evening; when most of our party left
us. My Father set off on business
[new page]
to Stone on Monday Evening we expect
him home to night. The roads
are so bad in Yorkshire, in consequence
of the great quantity of Snow that
has fallen there, that one of the
Coaches was over-turned three times
in coming to Manchester, which
much render travelling in Yorkshire
very dangerous at this Season of the
year. My Grandfather seems
to bear the cold of Winters very well
and I think is nearly as stout as
he was before his last illness.
[new page]
Joins in kind remembrances to all
friends at Gateacre; and with this I
Miss M A Nicholson
Gateacre
Near Liverpool
Pr Favour Miss Nicholson
must conclude hoping you will accept
the love of your Affectionate Cousin E Hatfield
PS Tom desires his best love