SerjeantLetters-09_01
Collection: Serjeant Family Letters, 1769-1840
Item: Letter to Elizabeth Browne Rogers Roche from Mary Browne Serjeant (1 June 1784)
Transcription:
Bath June 1th 1784
Has my Dearest Sister at last found an opportunity
to write to me in the absence of five year, indeed my dear Betsy I did
not neglect you but wrote several times to you and Mrs Livermore, but
was uncertain whether you got them as I did not hear from you. I
was so rejoiced upon receiving yours that I even shed tears to find you
had not forgot a Sister you once loved, which I had not so much feeling
and Affection for my Friends I should avoid a great deal of trouble
and anxiety. I found my Dr Brother here upon my arrival & he has
done everything in his power to serve me he is a Major in the same
Regiment he was in and is married to an Irish Lady, and has six
lovely Children, four Boys and two Girls, Tommy, Arthur, Duke,
and Adam Williamson. Ann, and Betsy, I have been at their house
five or six weeks when they lived in London, they now live at
Biddeford I heard from him the other Day he said he was just
going to write you, begs you will send his father and Mothers
and Peters Pictures to Bristol, and direct them to me and then he will
get them, you can at the same time send duks for his son is always
writeing to me about it, he is a fine Young Man and Member for
Dublin College and always Inquires when I hear from you.
Maria Ashenhurst Daughter of your Sister St loe lives with your
Brother, a fine Girl she is and very like her Mother, she is Sixteen
Year old this Month, and you remember how Handsome Nancy
was at that Age, Betsy her Sister lives in Dublin with Mrs
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SerjeantLetters-09_01
Collection: Serjeant Family Letters, 1769-1840
Item: Letter to Elizabeth Browne Rogers Roche from Mary Browne Serjeant (1 June 1784)
Transcription:
Bath June 1th 1784
Has my Dearest Sister at last found an opportunity
to write to me in the absence of five year, indeed my dear Betsy I did
not neglect you but wrote several times to you and Mrs Livermore, but
was uncertain whether you got them as I did not hear from you. I
was so rejoiced upon receiving yours that I even shed tears to find you
had not forgot a Sister you once loved, which I had not so much feeling
and Affection for my Friends I should avoid a great deal of trouble
and anxiety. I found my Dr Brother here upon my arrival & he has
done everything in his power to serve me he is a Major in the same
Regiment he was in and is married to an Irish Lady, and has six
lovely Children, four Boys and two Girls, Tommy, Arthur, Duke,
and Adam Williamson. Ann, and Betsy, I have been at their house
five or six weeks when they lived in London, they now live at
Biddeford I heard from him the other Day he said he was just
going to write you, begs you will send his father and Mothers
and Peters Pictures to Bristol, and direct them to me and then he will
get them, you can at the same time send duks for his son is always
writeing to me about it, he is a fine Young Man and Member for
Dublin College and always Inquires when I hear from you.
Maria Ashenhurst Daughter of your Sister St loe lives with your
Brother, a fine Girl she is and very like her Mother, she is Sixteen
Year old this Month, and you remember how Handsome Nancy
was at that Age, Betsy her Sister lives in Dublin with Mrs
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Additional Information on this letter can be found in the finding aid: cambridgehistory.org/research/serjeant-family-letters-176...