June 22 Barton)
(My Dear M^rs Hare will think I mean to retaliate
my silence has not been oweing to A motive so poor and void of regard
but A multiplicity of business and an unsettledness of thought, I am
yet at Barton, but this is the last letter you will receive from that
spot, while we are inhabitants of it, tho I please myself with the
Idea of retireing for a few days to that Dear place of my Nativity
to enjoy myself in the recollection of past happy days and may
at those times direct my pen to won who honoured it with so large
A share of her partial favours, we have been for A month repair=
=ing and puting in order our new house new to us but so old
in it self it wants allmost rebuildings we shall be at great
expence only to make it comfortable, shall aim at nothing
more at A house not our own, there is a vast deal of Room
in it and very convenient if it was in repair it woud be an
excellent House that their wants a good room to dine in, the
Parlours are both smale, a good kitching and Pantery a tea
Room and four lodgeing rooms besides Garrats stable back
Kitching Cow hous Greenery Coach house and Garden
all for twelve pound a year you may be sure it wants a deal
of mending, the rooms we have got paperd they are now painting
and next week I fancy we shall move entirely my sisters
there every day rides in the morning returns at night which
exercise has been of great service for that Phlegm
which still continues vastly troublesome at times Rd
[top margin] I am obliged to M^rs Elliot for
her letter I will writ when I get to Ormskirk my sister Joines in love to you
M^r M^rs Elliot best respects to all our friends
Do write soon back
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Seftons widow has been in the House with us a month we have
removed several things all ready so that we have room enough
hear for two familys now the time draws near it effects my
spirits more than I could wish is it not my friend excuseable where
won has spent thirty years of their life, where they drew their first
Breath and never knew any other Home, are not people naturally
attached to that place they have lived long in let it be ever
A disagreeable situation, I tell my sister that being marryed
Woud not appear so great a Change as the thought of leaveing
Barton, tho perhaps a more unhappy won as from that there is
no being freed if tis ever so bad I endeavour to think as I ought
that it shoud not be made an Affliction when you consider how
many things there are in the world to make people realy writch=
=ed, tis inconvenient attended with great hurry and we change
for the best I hope in God it will prove so – pray my Dear what
are you doing are you still at Reiveton I hope Miss Macdonald
has been fortunate in her connection what sort of Husband has she
you made me tremble in your last with {?piating/picting} at the thought
of a separation on some accounts it may be a Laudable step
as you may have more inward peace and be better able to
attend to your Duty as a Mother and Child, as it is your mind
must be continually destracted with fear doubts and every
kind of disquietude yet when I consider how fatal such
a step is to A womans reputation I dread for you the
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World censure in that delicate situation this Impossible to act so
as to escape its Malice it is not enough that we are Innocent
a well disposed mind such as I believe yours, would not feel
satisfied with out the worlds approbation – the most cautious
circumspect conduct quit {?revived} from the pleasure
of Life must in that case be the lot of my {?woust} Lively Friend
no other sanction but A Fathers house can be eligible
if you woud move happy with it I shoud not wish to raise
A doubt in your mind) you mentioned Mr Peg in your letter
To me I thought you Judged vastly well in making that good
Man your adviser in A letter from you mother and Kitty
at {?school} I hope she grows stronger who is she like I shoud [damaged]
[damaged] her at the last I can tell you my Aunt Nelly is marryd [damaged]
tomorrow will be A month since the long affair was concluded
nobody present or Indeed privey to it but M Mount who asked
on Character as Bride Maid we have all been to see her but
my Aunt Dolly) I like my Uncle vastly they have two very {?pritty}
Comfortable Houses won at Wavertree the other on Ford Street
M^rs Statham has calld upon my Aunt Dolly both cry’d
and was civil but there it will stop for my Aunt Dolly very
unfortunately opened here {^M^rs Statham} Door when he calld last week to ask my Aunt Taylor
how she did and woud not spake to him it was upon condition she could
behave well to M^r Statham my Aunt Nelly woud ever consent to call she
never Indeed promise but M^rs Statham did her part in time my Aunt
Dolly will come round but when people have carryd resentment so long
tis hard to come down with A good Grace I am sorry for her at her time
of Life tis hard to part from won whom you have brought up – M^rs Heathcote
has four lovely Girls she looks vastly Handsome she hasjust fixd M^r
Heathcotes two Daughters at Chester Jenny is just as usual M^r Hill
James Taylor and Miss A Watson form a {?trio} every night on her
Parlour
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M^r Radcliff is in Ormskirk an Elligant young man but I fear has got a little
of his Brothers whimseys into his head fancying himself Ill which casts
A Gloom upon the sweetest countenance I ever saw and makes him appear
dissatisfied Jennys Cast and Cousin is in London they are both still positive
to Jenny poor {?Bethy/Betty} Statham is in a bad state of Health she purposes
being at Matlock to morrow she gose along I am sorry for her on that
account she is A worthy Girl and I hope will be restored if you have
M^rs Hare
At M^r Elliots
Norfolk Street
Sheffield
Yorkshire
Single
any call that way {?woud} I say call upon her – pray do you hear anything
of the Beridges the Doctors Friends live I think in the Neighbourhood of
Reiveton I shoud love to know if the D^r be a happy man he had too
much sensibility his feelings were too delicate to admit of his
being uniformly happy I woud give a good deal to see him again –
he was a most sensible engageing man – I desire you will tell me some
thing about him and likewise what you are determined to do I hope
not turn farmer oh when I think how formd you were for domestick
Life when I think of the sweet scenes of Borrow Lee how happy you
[?kepd} through the Garden how you attended to every animale under your
Care) I can not help saying how wayward was fate yet you are regarded for
Happier times which that you may soon know prays your affectionate
M Hesketh

June 22 Barton)
(My Dear M^rs Hare will think I mean to retaliate
my silence has not been owing to A motive so poor and void of regard
but A multiplicity of business and an unsettledness of thought, I am
yet at Barton, but this is the last letter you will receive from that
spot, while we are inhabitants of it, though I please myself with the
Idea of retiring for a few days to that Dear place of my Nativity
to enjoy myself in the recollection of past happy days and may
at those times direct my pen to won who honoured it with so large
A share of her partial favours, we have been for A month repair=
=ing and putting in order our new house new to us but so old
in it self it wants almost rebuilding we shall be at great
expense only to make it comfortable, shall aim at nothing
more at A house not our own, there is a vast deal of Room
in it and very convenient if it was in repair it would be an
excellent House that their wants a good room to dine in, the
Parlours are both small, a good kitchen and Pantry, a tea
Room and four lodging rooms besides Garretts, stable, back
Kitchen, Cow house, Greenery, Coach house and Garden
all for twelve pound a year, you may be sure it wants a deal
of mending, the rooms we have got papered they are now painting
and next week I fancy we shall move entirely, my sisters
there every day rides in the morning returns at night which
exercise has been of great service for that Phlegm
which still continues vastly troublesome at times Rd
[top margin] I am obliged to M^rs Elliot for
her letter I will writ when I get to Ormskirk my sister Joins in love to you
M^r M^rs Elliot best respects to all our friends
Do write soon back
[new page]
Seftons widow has been in the House with us a month we have
removed several things all ready so that we have room enough
hear for two families now the time draws near it effects my
spirits more than I could wish is it not my friend excusable where
one has spent thirty years of their life, where they drew their first
Breath and never knew any other Home, are not people naturally
attached to that place they have lived long in let it be ever
A disagreeable situation, I tell my sister that being married
Would not appear so great a Change as the thought of leaving
Barton, though perhaps a more unhappy won as from that there is
no being freed if tis ever so bad I endeavour to think as I ought
that it should not be made an Affliction when you consider how
many things there are in the world to make people really wretch=
=ed, tis inconvenient attended with great hurry and we change
for the best I hope in God it will prove so – pray my Dear what
are you doing are you still at Reiveton I hope Miss Macdonald
has been fortunate in her connection what sort of Husband has she
you made me tremble in your last with {?piating/picting} at the thought
of a separation, on some accounts it may be a Laudable step
as you may have more inward peace and be better able to
attend to your Duty as a Mother and Child, as it is your mind
must be continually distracted with fear doubts and every
kind of disquietude, yet when I consider how fatal such
a step is to A woman's reputation I dread for you the
[new page]
World censure in that delicate situation tis Impossible to act so
as to escape its Malice, it is not enough that we are Innocent
a well disposed mind such as I believe yours, would not feel
satisfied with out the worlds approbation – the most cautious
circumspect conduct quit {?revived} from the pleasure
of Life must in that case be the lot of my {?woust} Lively Friend
no other sanction but A Fathers house can be eligible
if you would move happy with it I should not wish to raise
A doubt in your mind), you mentioned Mr Peg in your letter
To me I thought you Judged vastly well in making that good
Man your adviser in A letter from you mother and Kitty
at {?school} I hope she grows stronger who is she like I should [damaged]
[damaged] her at the last I can tell you my Aunt Nelly is married [damaged]
tomorrow will be A month since the long affair was concluded
nobody present or Indeed privy to it but M Mount who asked
on Character as Bride Maid we have all been to see her but
my Aunt Dolly) I like my Uncle vastly they have two very {?pretty}
Comfortable Houses won at Wavertree the other on Ford Street
M^rs Statham has called upon my Aunt Dolly both cried
and was civil but there it will stop for my Aunt Dolly very
unfortunately opened here {^M^rs Statham} Door when he called last week to ask my Aunt Taylor
how she did and would not speak to him it was upon condition she could
behave well to M^r Statham my Aunt Nelly would ever consent to call she
never Indeed promise but M^rs Statham did her part in time my Aunt
Dolly will come round but when people have carried resentment so long
tis hard to come down with A good Grace I am sorry for her at her time
of Life tis hard to part from won whom you have brought up – M^rs Heathcote
has four lovely Girls she looks vastly Handsome she has just fixed M^r
Heathcote's two Daughters at Chester Jenny is just as usual M^r Hill
James Taylor and Miss A Watson form a {?trio} every night on her
Parlour
[new page]
M^r Radcliff is in Ormskirk an Elegant young man but I fear has got a little
of his Brothers whimseys into his head fancying himself Ill which casts
A Gloom upon the sweetest countenance I ever saw and makes him appear
Dissatisfied, Jenny's Cast and Cousin is in London they are both still positive
to Jenny, poor {?Bethy/Betty} Statham is in a bad state of Health she purposes
being at Matlock to morrow she goes along, I am sorry for her on that
account she is A worthy Girl and I hope will be restored if you have
M^rs Hare
At M^r Elliots
Norfolk Street
Sheffield
Yorkshire
Single
any call that way {?would} I say call upon her – pray do you hear anything
of the Berridges the Doctors Friends live I think in the Neighbourhood of
Reiveton I should love to know if the D^r be a happy man he had too
much sensibility his feelings were too delicate to admit of his
being uniformly happy I would give a good deal to see him again –
he was a most sensible engaging man – I desire you will tell me some
thing about him and likewise what you are determined to do I hope
not turn farmer oh when I think how formed you were for domestic
Life when I think of the sweet scenes of Borrow Lee how happy you
[?kepd} through the Garden how you attended to every animal under your
Care) I can not help saying how wayward was fate yet you are regarded for
Happier times which that you may soon know prays your affectionate
M Hesketh