Gateacre 29 Dec^r 1806
Monday Evening
My dear Daughter,
Your Sister has packed the above cloaths &c which
Go in the Pellice by some Carrier I hope tomorrow
Whose name & place of delivery in Manchester I
Will add, before I close my letter, underneath
The inventory I had agreeable company on Satur=
=day in the Coach & got to Prescot in good time
but was some time before I procured a Porter
to carry my luggage & had to walk part of the
way in the dark but got well & found all well
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at home about six oClock, I shoud have been
glad to have seen you & your Cousins & heard from
you the account of the pleasure you received at
Mrs Woods entertainment, he had collected an
assembly of very good dancers; I hope none of you
caught cold, a particular account will oblige us
who you all danced with, how you were amused,
& proceeded after your uncle & I left you, & when
the Ball ended. I hope my dear you will have
your eyes & ears open & observe the respect & atten=
=tion, the affable obliging & useful characters obtain,
& how unpleasant the haughty the uncandid &
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censorious make themselves & as the object of all
observation is entirely, I trust I hope you will benefit
by it, the kindness of our friends where you are well
afford you an opportunity of seeing much greater
variety in a short time than our retired situation,
& the friendly society you enjoy with your amicable
cousin will enable you to aid each other in making
the most advantage of it, from candid & judicious
remark. I feel exceedingly grateful to our friends
for their kindness to you, in addition to their
long & kind attention to myself; to all where
present my affectionate regard & respects Betsey
has written to you, my Mother & all, add their
love, the children have been extremely noisy
while I have been writing to far, but Dorothy is
just sent to Bed, & the Boys are become silent,
recollect to pay your Uncle Carriage Postages &c &
make the Servants some return before you leave
in gratitude for their service & trouble, we shall all
be happy to receive you at home & to hear from you
in the mean time, as frequently as you are inclined
to write, & none more so my dear Child than y raff^e Father
& friend T N
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The Key of the Lock on the Pellice you may find between the first
Iron loop, & the second from the left hand, tyed to a string and put into
the pelisse, where your hand may reach when found pray don’t
lose it but bring it here with you to open the Lock
M^r Shepperd event to {?Hafeld} on Saturday, M^rs S to the Park,
The Miss Cromptons are got home, Miss [illeg] is well, but Miss
C is taken unwell slightly I believe, for M^rs C was at Chapel yester=
=day with most of the family, who went to look at M^r Brownbills house for
the Miss Lawrences
Miss Nicholson
At M^r Jonathan Hatfields
Travis Isle near
Manchester

Gateacre 29 Dec^r 1806
Monday Evening
My dear Daughter,
Your Sister has packed the above cloaths &c which
Go in the Pellice by some Carrier I hope tomorrow
Whose name & place of delivery in Manchester I
Will add, before I close my letter, underneath
The inventory I had agreeable company on Satur=
=day in the Coach & got to Prescot in good time
but was some time before I procured a Porter
to carry my luggage & had to walk part of the
way in the dark but got well & found all well
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at home about six oClock, I shoud have been
glad to have seen you & your Cousins & heard from
you the account of the pleasure you received at
Mrs Woods entertainment, he had collected an
assembly of very good dancers; I hope none of you
caught cold, a particular account will oblige us
who you all danced with, how you were amused,
& proceeded after your uncle & I left you, & when
the Ball ended. I hope my dear you will have
your eyes & ears open & observe the respect & atten=
=tion, the affable obliging & useful characters obtain,
& how unpleasant the haughty the uncandid &
[new page]
censorious make themselves & as the object of all
observation is entirely, I trust I hope you will benefit
by it, the kindness of our friends where you are well
afford you an opportunity of seeing much greater
variety in a short time than our retired situation,
& the friendly society you enjoy with your amicable
cousin will enable you to aid each other in making
the most advantage of it, from candid & judicious
remark. I feel exceedingly grateful to our friends
for their kindness to you, in addition to their
long & kind attention to myself; to all where
present my affectionate regard & respects Betsey
has written to you, my Mother & all, add their
love, the children have been extremely noisy
while I have been writing to far, but Dorothy is
just sent to Bed, & the Boys are become silent,
recollect to pay your Uncle Carriage Postages &c &
make the Servants some return before you leave
in gratitude for their service & trouble, we shall all
be happy to receive you at home & to hear from you
in the mean time, as frequently as you are inclined
to write, & none more so my dear Child than y raff^e Father
& friend T N
[new page]
The Key of the Lock on the Pellice you may find between the first
Iron loop, & the second from the left hand, tyed to a string and put into
the pelisse, where your hand may reach when found pray don’t
lose it but bring it here with you to open the Lock
M^r Shepperd event to {?Hafeld} on Saturday, M^rs S to the Park,
The Miss Cromptons are got home, Miss [illeg] is well, but Miss
C is taken unwell slightly I believe, for M^rs C was at Chapel yester=
=day with most of the family, who went to look at M^r Brownbills house for
the Miss Lawrences
Miss Nicholson
At M^r Jonathan Hatfields
Travis Isle near
Manchester