986 - Judith Madan to Martin Madan, 15 August 1730
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Bretby Augst 15st 1730
My Dearest Life
It is impossible for me to express the pleasure
I enjoy’d when yrs came to me, I woud not have you
imagine the cause of my {^long} silence proceeded from an
expectation of having a first Letter from you, but from
the impossibility of getting a moment to my self,
which, till now, I have not been able to obtain. The
Pleasure of Bretby are very insipid to what I re=
=member them when bless’d with my best and
only Love, I find the impossibility of being in the
least happy without you, therefore shall not delay
coming to my Dear Judy the first minute that I
can call my own. The affair you mention is not
to be forgot, you enjoin me to forgive which is
sufficient for me to show no further resentment but
the {^not} putting it in Mr [damaged] power ever to use me in
the same manner again wch I hope you think rea=
=sonable. Kiss my Dear Martin for me, the Post waits
for this. Let me hear from you often I am yrs entirely
M.M.
[change of orientation]
The first opportunity I have y[damaged] expect to hear from me and have
some Bretby news.
My Dearest Life
It is impossible for me to express the pleasure
I enjoy’d when yrs came to me, I woud not have you
imagine the cause of my {^long} silence proceeded from an
expectation of having a first Letter from you, but from
the impossibility of getting a moment to my self,
which, till now, I have not been able to obtain. The
Pleasure of Bretby are very insipid to what I re=
=member them when bless’d with my best and
only Love, I find the impossibility of being in the
least happy without you, therefore shall not delay
coming to my Dear Judy the first minute that I
can call my own. The affair you mention is not
to be forgot, you enjoin me to forgive which is
sufficient for me to show no further resentment but
the {^not} putting it in Mr [damaged] power ever to use me in
the same manner again wch I hope you think rea=
=sonable. Kiss my Dear Martin for me, the Post waits
for this. Let me hear from you often I am yrs entirely
M.M.
[change of orientation]
The first opportunity I have y[damaged] expect to hear from me and have
some Bretby news.
Bretby Augst 15st 1730
My Dearest Life
It is impossible for me to express the pleasure
I enjoyed when yrs came to me, I would not have you
imagine the cause of my {^long} silence proceeded from an
expectation of having a first Letter from you, but from
the impossibility of getting a moment to my self,
which, till now, I have not been able to obtain. The
Pleasure of Bretby are very insipid to what I re=
=member them when blessed with my best and
only Love, I find the impossibility of being in the
least happy without you, therefore shall not delay
coming to my Dear Judy the first minute that I
can call my own. The affair you mention is not
to be forgot, you enjoin me to forgive which is
sufficient for me to show no further resentment but
the {^not} putting it in Mr [damaged] power ever to use me in
the same manner again wch I hope you think rea=
=sonable. Kiss my Dear Martin for me, the Post waits
for this. Let me hear from you often I am yrs entirely
M.M.
[change of orientation]
The first opportunity I have y[damaged] expect to hear from me and have
some Bretby news.
My Dearest Life
It is impossible for me to express the pleasure
I enjoyed when yrs came to me, I would not have you
imagine the cause of my {^long} silence proceeded from an
expectation of having a first Letter from you, but from
the impossibility of getting a moment to my self,
which, till now, I have not been able to obtain. The
Pleasure of Bretby are very insipid to what I re=
=member them when blessed with my best and
only Love, I find the impossibility of being in the
least happy without you, therefore shall not delay
coming to my Dear Judy the first minute that I
can call my own. The affair you mention is not
to be forgot, you enjoin me to forgive which is
sufficient for me to show no further resentment but
the {^not} putting it in Mr [damaged] power ever to use me in
the same manner again wch I hope you think rea=
=sonable. Kiss my Dear Martin for me, the Post waits
for this. Let me hear from you often I am yrs entirely
M.M.
[change of orientation]
The first opportunity I have y[damaged] expect to hear from me and have
some Bretby news.
Details
Judith Madan to Martin Madan, 15 August 1730
Her letter gave him great joy – he would have replied sooner, but has not had a moment to himself. The town he is in is much less pleasurable than it had been when he was there with Judith – he can never be happy without her and will return to her as soon as he can.
Madan Family
Eng Letter C.284 f.111
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
1730
8
15
Bretby, Derbyshire [England]
[England]
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People
Person: Martin Madan
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primary author
- kissing
- travel
- work
- writing
- bored
- separation
hurried
- happy
- lack of feeling
- love (parental)
- love (romantic)
- low
- memory
- self
- marriage
- parenthood
Person: Judith Madan
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primary addressee
- kissing
- writing
separation
- love (parental)
- love (romantic)
- marriage
- parenthood