4 - Rebekah Bateman (Born: 1763)
- Person Details
- Letters (118)
Rebekah
Bateman
Clegg
1763
1797
1763
1797
female
- married
- unmarried
protestant (non-conforming)
established middling
Cotton Merchant (wife)
primary author
ears
- devotional practice
- drinking
- fasting
- pleasure
- worried
- duty
- faith
- virtuous
hearing
- body - unchanged
- health - unchanged
- mind - unchanged
primary author
- devotional practice
- incapacitated
- visiting
uneasy
- apprehension
- worried
- duty
- faith
- mind
- peace
- personal blessings
- self
- virtuous
marriage
- body - unchanged
- health - unchanged
- mind - improving
primary author
body
- death/dying
- devotional practice
- listening
- meditating
- thinking
- walking
- writing
insensible
longevity
- disorder
- health
- ill-health
- uneasy
- apprehension
- grateful
- love (familial)
- pleasure
- sorrow
- disposition
- distraction
- duty
- faith
- mind
- peace
- personal blessings
- sinful
- soul
- thought
- virtuous
- consolation
- religion
- at home
- religious meeting
- travel
- congregation
- family
- body - worsening
- health - unchanged
Dr Madam
primary addressee
whole-body
writing
My Dearest Madam
primary addressee
breast
- visiting
- writing
personal blessings
primary author
- devotional practice
- reading
- travel
youth
- health
- well
- affection
- grateful
- happy
- hopeful
- love (parental)
- pleasure
- education
- faith
- memory
- at home
- school
- family
- parenthood
primary author
- visiting
- writing
youth
health
- affection
- happy
- sorrow
- duty
- education
- virtuous
school
parenthood
primary author
- crying
- devotional practice
- drinking
- sight-seeing
- talking
- visiting
- writing
- apprehension
- fear
- happy
- duty
- faith
- memory
other
illness
- disorder
- ill-health
- unwell
- apprehension
- hopeful
care provided by family/kin/household
family
- health - improving
- health - worsening
My Dear Mrs Bateman
primary addressee
- devotional practice
- writing
- faith
- peace
- personal blessings
My dear Mrs Bateman
primary addressee
health
- duty
- faith
- peace
- personal blessings
- virtuous
- family
- friendship
- motherhood
- parenthood
My Dear Mrs Bateman
primary addressee
childbirth
apprehension
- disposition
- distraction
- duty
- faith
- virtuous
primary author
spirits (body part)
- childbirth
- exercise
- travel
- visiting
- melancholy
- pregnancy
- separation
- health
- well
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- happy
- hopeful
- love (romantic)
- worried
- duty
- faith
- god
- marriage
- body - unchanged
- health - unchanged
primary author
separation
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- hopeful
- love
- love (parental)
- sorrow
- worried
faith
motherhood
primary author
separation
- health
- well
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- grateful
- love (romantic)
faith
at home
primary author
- health
- well
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- hopeful
- love
- love (romantic)
marriage
primary author
spirits (body part)
writing
- melancholy
- separation
- uneasy
- well
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- love
- love (romantic)
- low
- duty
- faith
- personal blessings
at home
- family
- marriage
primary author
- devotional practice
- visiting
separation
- health
- well
- affection
- apprehension
- grateful
- hopeful
- love (familial)
- love (romantic)
- faith
- self
- slow of mind
- virtuous
religious meeting
- congregation
- family
- motherhood
- parenthood
primary author
- breast
- heart
- breastfeeding
- devotional practice
- sight-seeing
- visiting
- writing
- melancholy
- separation
hurried
- affection
- apprehension
- happy
- hopeful
- low
- shame
- duty
- faith
- personal blessings
- sinful
pain
care provided by family/kin/household
- religious meeting
- urban
- congregation
- family
- friendship
- motherhood
- parenthood
- body - improving
- health - unchanged
primary author
spirits (body part)
- gifting
- visiting
- writing
- health
- well
- affection
- happy
- love
- love (romantic)
faith
marriage
primary author
hands
consumption
- affection
- anger
- apprehension
- feeling
- grateful
- happy
- duty
- faith
- virtuous
religious meeting
- marriage
- motherhood
primary author
writing
- health
- hurried
- well
- anger
- hopeful
disposition
- marriage
- motherhood
primary author
- travel
- writing
separation
uneasy
- affection
- love
- sorrow
- sympathy
distraction
care provided by family/kin/household
marriage
primary author
writing
- health
- well
- affection
- apprehension
- grateful
- love (romantic)
- duty
- faith
- marriage
- motherhood
primary author
- drinking
- visiting
- walking
separation
- affection
- grateful
- happy
weather
- marriage
- motherhood
primary author
- recreation
- travel
- writing
safe
- affection
- love
- worried
faith
- rural
- travel
- marriage
- motherhood
primary author
- visiting
- writing
- a cold
- separation
recovery
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- love
marriage
- body - improving
- health - improving
primary author
heart
- devotional practice
- listening
- meditating
a cold
- recovery
- weak
- feeling
- happy
- hopeful
- disposition
- faith
- memory
- mind
- personal blessings
- body - improving
- health - improving
primary author
heart
- crying
- death/dying
- devotional practice
- melancholy
- separation
ageing
- affection
- apprehension
- distress
- fear
- grief
- happy
- hopeful
- love
- love (romantic)
- low
- worried
- duty
- faith
- mind
- god
- marriage
primary author
- devotional practice
- writing
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- grateful
- love
- love (romantic)
- worried
- faith
- virtuous
care provided by family/kin/household
- family
- marriage
primary author
heart
writing
uneasy
- affection
- amused
- apprehension
- feeling
- hopeful
- love
- love (parental)
- love (romantic)
- worried
- faith
- thought
- family
- marriage
- motherhood
primary author
- drinking
- eating
- sight-seeing
- travel
separation
- health
- safe
- well
- affection
- love (familial)
faith
environment
marriage
primary author
- travel
- writing
separation
- ill-health
- well
- apprehension
- distress
- hopeful
- love
- shock
- worried
- faith
- memory
travel
- marriage
- motherhood
primary author
- travel
- walking
- health
- hurried
- safe
- well
- affection
- love
faith
- marriage
- motherhood
primary author
hands
- devotional practice
- dining
- drinking
- listening
- visiting
- walking
- affection
- love (parental)
- sorrow
faith
- environment
- religious meeting
- family
- marriage
- motherhood
primary author
- travel
- writing
- affection
- apprehension
- grateful
- hopeful
- shock
duty
travel
- marriage
- motherhood
- parenthood
primary author
- dining
- visiting
- writing
separation
- affection
- grateful
- happy
- hopeful
- marriage
- motherhood
- parenthood
primary author
- dining
- travel
- anger
- love
- resentment
- shock
travel
marriage
primary author
- consumption
- drinking
- travel
- visiting
- separation
- tired
- fatigue
- health
- well
- affection
- grateful
- happy
- duty
- faith
- summer
- travel
- friendship
- marriage
- motherhood
primary author
- dining
- travel
- visiting
separation
uneasy
- affection
- anger
- apprehension
- resentment
- sorrow
- worried
disposition
travel
- family
- marriage
primary author
- confinement
- consumption
- reading
- sight-seeing
- travel
- writing
- apprehension
- distress
- fear
- love
- love (familial)
- worried
faith
- travel
- weather
- family
- motherhood
primary author
- travel
- writing
- apprehension
- distress
- sorrow
- worried
faith
family
primary author
- consumption
- travel
- visiting
separation
duty
- at home
- travel
- family
- marriage
primary author
- cleaning
- consumption
- visiting
- aesthetics
- clothing
- hurried
- uneasy
- distress
- fear
- worried
at home
- family
- friendship
- motherhood
primary author
death/dying
- aesthetics
- clothing
uneasy
- affection
- shock
- worried
- distraction
- duty
- family
- friendship
- marriage
primary author
- drinking
- travel
- visiting
- writing
separation
- safe
- uneasy
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- grateful
- hopeful
- love
- worried
faith
- marriage
- motherhood
primary author
consumption
- hurried
- uneasy
- affection
- apprehension
- distress
- fear
- love (familial)
- love (parental)
- sorrow
- worried
duty
- marriage
- siblings
primary author
- consumption
- writing
uneasy
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- hopeful
- love (familial)
- worried
- duty
- faith
- family
- marriage
- siblings
primary author
- confinement
- death/dying
- dining
- exercise
- recreation
- health
- uneasy
- affection
- apprehension
- distress
- grateful
- hopeful
- love (familial)
- love (parental)
- shock
- sorrow
faith
regimen
- family
- friendship
- marriage
- siblings
primary author
- consumption
- sight-seeing
- travel
- visiting
- writing
- disorder
- hurried
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- grateful
- love (parental)
- worried
- confused
- duty
care provided by family/kin/household
religious meeting
- marriage
- motherhood
- parenthood
- siblings
primary author
- dining
- sight-seeing
- travel
- visiting
- work
- writing
separation
- apprehension
- distress
- fear
- grateful
- love
- love (familial)
- worried
- distraction
- duty
- thought
weather
- family
- marriage
primary author
- hands
- heart
- devotional practice
- sight-seeing
- visiting
- writing
separation
hurried
- affection
- hopeful
- love
- love (familial)
- duty
- faith
- personal blessings
- sinful
- virtuous
religious meeting
- marriage
- parenthood
primary author
- travel
- writing
unwell
fear
- duty
- faith
- family
- marriage
primary author
- drinking
- meditating
- thinking
- travel
- writing
separation
- safe
- well
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- hopeful
- love (familial)
- love (parental)
- love (romantic)
- duty
- faith
weather
- friendship
- marriage
primary author
spirits (body part)
- crying
- sleeping
separation
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- hopeful
- low
- worried
- disposition
- duty
- faith
- virtuous
- marriage
- motherhood
primary author
clothing
separation
- disorder
- hurried
- safe
- uneasy
- affection
- fear
- hopeful
- love
- regret
- worried
faith
at home
- friendship
- marriage
- motherhood
primary author
heart
- consumption
- devotional practice
- listening
- meditating
- grateful
- love (familial)
memory
religious meeting
friendship
primary author
- meditating
- sight-seeing
- thinking
- travel
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- happy
- hopeful
- love
- duty
- faith
religious meeting
- friendship
- marriage
primary author
separation
- health
- well
- affection
- apprehension
- happy
- sorrow
- sympathy
- worried
faith
- business
- family
- marriage
primary author
- devotional practice
- listening
- travel
illness
- hurried
- ill-health
- uneasy
- unwell
- affection
- happy
- love
- sorrow
cold
- religious meeting
- travel
- weather
marriage
primary author
- heart
- spirits (body part)
- crying
- talking
- travel
- visiting
- writing
illness
youth
- easy
- ill-health
- affection
- grateful
- happy
- love
- low
- sorrow
- sympathy
- duty
- education
- environment
- religious meeting
- school
- travel
- weather
- winter
- family
- friendship
primary author
- confinement
- writing
illness
- affection
- happy
- love (familial)
- shock
- sympathy
- education
- faith
- sinful
- virtuous
care provided by family/kin/household
school
friendship
primary author
- death/dying
- devotional practice
- gifting
- listening
- writing
separation
youth
- affection
- love
- regret
- shame
- sorrow
- disposition
- faith
- peace
- sinful
religious meeting
- courting
- friendship
primary author
- death/dying
- thinking
- visiting
- writing
- affection
- hopeful
- love
- shame
faith
spring
friendship
primary author
- devotional practice
- drinking
- gifting
- reading
- travel
- visiting
- writing
safe
- affection
- grateful
- happy
- sorrow
- sympathy
faith
at home
friendship
primary author
spirits (body part)
- devotional practice
- meditating
- travel
- writing
smell
- illness
- melancholy
- separation
youth
- disorder
- ill-health
- uneasy
- unwell
affection
- duty
- faith
- mind
- body - worsening
- health - worsening
- mind - worsening
primary author
- devotional practice
- exercise
- horse-riding
- listening
- recreation
- travel
- writing
- active
- hurried
- safe
- affection
- love (familial)
faith
- religious meeting
- weather
friendship
primary author
- consumption
- eating
- gifting
- making
- affection
- apprehension
- love
- love (parental)
- worried
- motherhood
- parenthood
primary author
hands
- devotional practice
- visiting
- writing
- health
- well
- affection
- happy
- hopeful
- love
- faith
- memory
- virtuous
friendship
primary author
heart
- breathing
- crying
- thinking
- writing
melancholy
health
- affection
- grief
- happy
- love
- shock
- sympathy
faith
friendship
primary author
- travel
- visiting
- writing
- affection
- love
- regret
- sorrow
- duty
- memory
friendship
primary author
- devotional practice
- travel
- writing
separation
health
- affection
- apprehension
- hopeful
- love
- worried
- disposition
- duty
- memory
- environment
- spring
friendship
primary author
- visiting
- writing
- health
- hurried
- apprehension
- love
- worried
- disposition
- duty
- family
- friendship
primary author
heart
- devotional practice
- writing
- affection
- fear
- hopeful
- love
- regret
- shame
- duty
- faith
- sinful
friendship
primary author
- ears
- eyes
- visiting
- writing
- insensible
- melancholy
- affection
- grief
- happy
- hopeful
- love
- regret
- sorrow
- faith
- memory
- self
- sinful
pain
friendship
primary author
- recreation
- singing
- writing
separation
youth
hurried
- affection
- grateful
- duty
- education
- courting
- friendship
primary author
- recreation
- singing
- affection
- apprehension
- feeling
- grateful
- hopeful
- love
- regret
- shame
- sorrow
- worried
education
friendship
primary author
arm
- confinement
- gifting
- visiting
- writing
a cold
- disorder
- ill-health
- recovery
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- grateful
- love (familial)
- love (parental)
- worried
doctor
- friendship
- motherhood
- siblings
body - improving
primary author
- dining
- drinking
- visiting
- writing
- health
- hurried
- well
- affection
- love (familial)
faith
siblings
primary author
- exercise
- recreation
- visiting
- affection
- happy
- hopeful
- love
- regret
- sorrow
- duty
- faith
summer
friendship
primary author
eyes
- meditating
- thinking
- travel
- visiting
separation
safe
- affection
- apprehension
- fear
- love
- shame
- faith
- personal blessings
friendship
primary author
heart
- travel
- visiting
- writing
separation
- health
- recovery
- feeling
- grateful
- love
- regret
- duty
- faith
- virtuous
- environment
- rural
friendship
- body - improving
- health - improving
primary author
- consumption
- dining
- visiting
- writing
clothing
- affection
- happy
- hopeful
- love
- duty
- memory
- business
- friendship
Dear Doughters
primary addressee
travel
- build
- small
separation
education
school
family
My Dear Daughter
primary addressee
spirits (body part)
consumption
youth
- health
- well
- disposition
- education
- faith
school
family
My Dear Daughter
primary addressee
teeth
unwell
recipe
motherhood
My Dear Daughters
primary addressee
separation
youth
uneasy
primary addressee
- constitution
- whole-body
- drinking
- making
- writing
- aesthetics
- clothing
- health
- well
- disposition
- duty
- education
- personal blessings
- soul
winter
family
primary addressee
making
youth
- duty
- education
- faith
- sinful
- virtuous
school
primary addressee
writing
- home-sick
- separation
- education
- peace
- soul
- school
- winter
My Dear Daughter
primary addressee
breast
thinking
separation
youth
- easy
- health
- uneasy
- well
grateful
- faith
- peace
- personal blessings
other
death/dying
illness
- dead
- ill-health
- unwell
peace
pain
other
- devotional practice
- making
- reading
- thinking
- active
- aesthetics
youth
easy
- education
- faith
- mind
primary addressee
devotional practice
- duty
- faith
- memory
- mind
My dr Miss R Clegg
primary addressee
writing
- health
- well
at home
primary addressee
visiting
separation
youth
- duty
- education
school
- family
- siblings
primary addressee
writing
youth
happy
education
school
primary addressee
writing
- affection
- regret
education
school
friendship
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
illness
- disorder
- recovery
- unwell
- faith
- personal blessings
siblings
- body - improving
- health - improving
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
- childbirth
- confinement
- travel
- visiting
pregnancy
safe
fear
doctor
at home
family
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
spirits (body part)
- childbirth
- confinement
pregnancy
- easy
- health
- strong
- well
- apprehension
- fear
- love (parental)
- worried
faith
care provided by family/kin/household
- motherhood
- parenthood
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
- childbirth
- confinement
- writing
pregnancy
- recovery
- strong
- well
- body - improving
- health - improving
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
arm
- breastfeeding
- travel
- illness
- separation
- ill-health
- recovery
- unwell
- weak
rural
- marriage
- motherhood
- siblings
body - improving
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
- dining
- travel
- love
- love (familial)
care provided by family/kin/household
siblings
Dear Sister
primary addressee
travel
safe
at home
siblings
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
travel
fatigue
easy
at home
siblings
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
consumption
happy
faith
siblings
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
faith
religious meeting
- congregation
- siblings
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
- recovery
- strong
- unwell
- well
disposition
siblings
- body - improving
- health - improving
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
- consumption
- sleeping
aesthetics
anger
- motherhood
- parenthood
- siblings
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
- consumption
- devotional practice
- travel
clothing
hurried
- fear
- worried
religious meeting
- congregation
- motherhood
- parenthood
- siblings
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
aesthetics
- health
- strong
- well
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
- childbirth
- confinement
- looking
pregnancy
- health
- well
- friendship
- siblings
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
a cold
- disorder
- recovery
- unwell
- well
- body - improving
- health - improving
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
health
- at home
- environment
- rural
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
- consumption
- gifting
- visiting
My Dear Sister
primary addressee
leg
injured
- ill-health
- recovery
other
face
- death/dying
- devotional practice
- singing
dead
affection
- personal blessings
- virtuous