Dumfries 9^th Jan^y 1807
M^r Tho^s Nicholson
Dear Sir
I have to acknowledge the receipt of
yours of the 29^th Nov^r last, it give me more
pleasure then I can well express, for now I have
no Blood Relations left, but your Fathers {^& Uncle} Family
and if it had not been for the information which
I sometimes have from worthy M^rs Nicholson
In park, I should have had no opertunity of knowing
(for a number of years) that I had relations
In life, indeed I could not help thinking that
both you, and your Brother, had forgot that there
was such a person in existance, but did you
but know, how much pleasur it gives me
(in this my solitary state) to heare of all
Your welfares I am sure that you would not
Have denayed me it, at least once in this year –
Pardon me, for I wish not to offend, and from my
frail State our correspondence must soon
terminate – my health has been very indefrent
for this concidrable time past, but I have
great reason to be thankfull that I have not
been much confined to Bed
My principle complaint is the Rumitism
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accept of my thanks for the particularly account
that you give of a family that I feel so much
interested in, likewise for your generous offer
but thanks be to a kind providence I have no need
of pecuniary aid – I will be glad to hear from
you when you find it convenient in the mene
time permite me to wish you and all your
conections many agreable returns of the
Season so such of them as may fall in your
Way pleas remember me to them I am
Dear Sir
With much esteem
Your sincear well wisher
Dorothy Burgess
N.B Sarah Wilson
died last Spring
[change hand] Dumfries
9 January 1807
Dorothy Burgess
Rec^d 17 Jan^y

Dumfries 9^th Jan^y 1807
M^r Tho^s Nicholson
Dear Sir
I have to acknowledge the receipt of
yours of the 29^th Nov^r last, it give me more
pleasure then I can well express, for now I have
no Blood Relations left, but your Fathers {^& Uncle} Family
and if it had not been for the information which
I sometimes have from worthy M^rs Nicholson
In park, I should have had no opertunity of knowing
(for a number of years) that I had relations
In life, indeed I could not help thinking that
both you, and your Brother, had forgot that there
was such a person in existance, but did you
but know, how much pleasur it gives me
(in this my solitary state) to heare of all
Your welfares I am sure that you would not
Have denayed me it, at least once in this year –
Pardon me, for I wish not to offend, and from my
frail State our correspondence must soon
terminate – my health has been very indefrent
for this concidrable time past, but I have
great reason to be thankfull that I have not
been much confined to Bed
My principle complaint is the Rheumatism
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accept of my thanks for the particularly account
that you give of a family that I feel so much
interested in, likewise for your generous offer
but thanks be to a kind providence I have no need
of pecuniary aid – I will be glad to hear from
you when you find it convenient in the mene
time permite me to wish you and all your
conections many agreable returns of the
Season so such of them as may fall in your
Way pleas remember me to them I am
Dear Sir
With much esteem
Your sincear well wisher
Dorothy Burgess
N.B Sarah Wilson
died last Spring
[change hand] Dumfries
9 January 1807
Dorothy Burgess
Rec^d 17 Jan^y