SerjeantLetters-05_01

Collection: Serjeant Family Letters, 1769-1840

 

Item: Letter to Elizabeth Browne Rogers Roche from Winwood Serjeant (15 June 1774)

 

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Cambridge June 15th 1774

My Dearest Sister

Your Letters always give me pleasure,

for I feel a tender concern for your hap

-piness & welfare: It is a blessing you are possessed

of so much prudence, for your circumstances in

life require it all, & I hope will enable you to

surmount all difficulties. You informed me

that Mr. Whipple had bought poor Father’s house,

but forgot to tell me for how much; I hope to a

reasonable advantage, otherwise the Executors

would not have consented, let Mr. Livermore

have been ever so hasty. It is not easy for me

to advise you whether you [^] shou’d [^] resign the House

before your time is up: that must depend on

the offer Whipple makes you & the advantages

you may reap by continuing in it. You have

never yet informed us of the disposal of the

household goods; what they fetched: should be

glad to know what Debts are brought in against

the

 

 

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