Bagillt
April 14, 1854
Dear J. & Eth,
We take the pleasure of sending these few lines to you in
hopes to find you in good state of health as they leave us but indifferent, for
it has been such a winter this last winter that it has taken a great many just
about our age to their last resting place, and as we may be well aware that we
shall not be here long. Everybody
getting cold one time after another and a great many dying very sudden without
getting one minute of notice that you would hardly believe. Therefore we have a great occasion for to
prepare and be ready at all times, and we were very glad to hear that you were
all enjoying the best of health, which both you and we ought to be very
thankful.
I have to inform you that your sister Louisa has been confirmed
of very fine boy on Saturday evening about eleven o’clock the first of April,
and your mother was sent for on Sunday morning and she goes and comes every day
with the coach for she is not let to be there at all, but thanks be to God your
sister is getting on as well as can be expected, and we have your sister
Charlotte here from Chester for little Harriet and myself could not do at home.
Another thing we were very glad to hear that we have to
expect the likeness so soon , but your mother should of wished as you can
praise little M. A. Ellen so much at the present time that if her likeness had
not been taken so soon as it has been for she would of liked to have seen her
as she is just now, and another thing, your sister Charlotte was here when we
received the letter on Sunday morning and heard the whole of them read, and she
says that as her sister Elizabeth can praise so much on her daughter M A Ellen
as she does, your sister Charlotte thinks she can praise so much on her little
Mary Ellen, for she can run about everywhere and talk everything, but all
English mind you, not a word of Welsh at all, and as you challenge so much, she
says you can bring her over here as soon as you like that she will ___ ready
against you . Come enough on this
subject for the present and as you were talking of us doing some other
business, we cannot settle our minds at all.
We should be very glad if we could but it is so unsettled here and so
sorry keeping altogether that you would not believe. Therefore we cannot say anything for the
present for there is a power of families here nearly clamoring, and we have not
been baking so much barley bread sine
the colliery’s here got drowned ___ as we do now find people cannot hardly get
that not as much as they should have for it has been such a hard winter that we
cannot hardly can recollect, and another thing, both your mother and myself are
very thankful to you and Elizabeth for being so kind to your brother Edwin, and
am in great hopes that he strives his best for to please you in all ways, that
is our greatest of wishes, and indeed for the truth we should be very glad to
see that day that you should send for your brother James again, for as you may
well know that he is only eating us up entirely, for he gets nothing of no
worth for his work hardly, and I can understand that he is a very good workman
and he should like to have the word of Saturday tomorrow if it was possible,
and he says if all is well that he will write a long letter the next time to
you all. He keeps walking home
altogether now.
I must give up for the present. You must excuse for the present for you can
see how it is with us some here and there.
So your brothers and sisters sends their kind respects to you and except
the same from your dutyful father and mother,
Robert & Sarah Benjamin
PS - Your mother’s receipt and she should of been very glad
if she should have the pleasure of never sending you again as soon as she would
of done with your sister.
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