SerjeantLetters-11_07

Collection: Serjeant Family Letters, 1769-1840

 

Item: Letter to Elizabeth Browne Rogers Roche from Mary Browne Serjeant (30 April 1789)

 

Transcription:

 

herself. they have made her promise to spend a few

Months with them this Spring, as Mr. Jarvis is to come

& meet her therefore I cannot refuse. -— — — — —

tho’ I have lived in this place near ten Years yet

have made very few acquaintances as the people of

England are so different in every respect that you would

hardly suppose they were of the same species as the

Americans, Stiff, Starch, imperious, haughty, suspicious. -

uncharitable, Wretches, who ridicule & slander their

best friends as soon as their back is turned & hardly

know, much more speak of their Door Neighbor

for my part when I am in company I which is very

seldom I am affraid to look or Speak it is very

hard at my time of Life to put such constraint

upon [hole in page] so different from what I have been

accustom’d too, & from my natural make, which is

openess of Disposition as my poor Dr Brother wrote to

me to be cautious how I proceed, for he knew if

a person spoke a good Word to me I would do any

thing for [crossed out] them. — — I am very much obliged to

you my Dear for your intelligence respecting who was

Dead & Married, it was [crossed out] what I wished very much

to know, hope you will not forget it in future would

do as much for you if you were acquainted with

any person here, but your own Relations, poor Mrs.

Shopland is no more she departed this Life the 27th

of last March, 88 in a galloping Consumption [crossed out] which

is not uncommon in our family, leaving behind her 3

young Children, the eldest but seven Years old the youngest

when she died was but a twelvemonth, their names Lucy John

 

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