Flint North Wales
Thursday, August 30, 1849
Dear John,
As Robert Williams is writing I take this opportunity of
enclosing a few lines to you. Your
father called upon me and I was somewhat astonished to hear you had so soon
received my letter with all the news about the Collins accident and since I
last wrote you there have been a few more victims to the cholera but I think
you will only know two of them. Poor Sam
Hoskins is one and the old woman in Prodigal Lane is the other. They both died very suddenly. Sam had turned to drinking and I believe had
been expelled from the Society of Saints about a month ago. ___ Dunn was at Kelsterton for grains on
Thursday night last. She was taken ill
after returning, died yesterday morning and buried in the afternoon.
The object of your father coming to me was to ask me to go
to Phil Edwards to ask him to plead with
Mr. Kirk’s attorney for a little more time for the rent. You are probably not aware the property is
going to be sold as Mr. Kirk is a bankrupt and they are very urgent about the
rent being paid Indeed they say it
must be settled this week. I told Phil
Edwards the circumstances and he said he wants to so all he can and no doubt
but they will wait. He was going to
write them yesterday.
I received your newspaper last week and I post one regularly
for you. Sometimes 2 – I did not pay
with the one last week as I think the
stamp ___ there, but I wish you to
inform me particularly abut that one. It was the Albion 20th
August. I shall pay with them for the
future until I hear from you again.
I had also a paper from T. Price and I am going to post him
a Albion along with yours today. I have
not had a letter from him since the first.
I have been expecting one for some time as he told me not to write until
I hear from him again.
We had a long trial in the Town Hall about a fortnight
ago, __ Gardner vs. ___ Williams that
lost the day. He has to pay off her week
for being a papa. You better say nothing
about this affair in the letter you write here as it may get to his ears and
cause unpleasantness. I wish him well
and I hope this will be a warning to him.
He is very steady at present and I trust he may continue so. I fear we shall lose our curator Mr.
Lewis. I think he will be going to
___. We have service every Wednesday
night in English and on Friday’s in Welsh and I am afraid one of the services
will be discontinued if he leaves us. He
is very much liked. He came here
immediately after you left.
David Hughes was acquitted the Grand Jury – ignore the bill
so he was not tried.
In my last letter I told you the Archeological Society were
going to pay us a visit. They did so but
owing to previous arrangements they spent but a very little time with us. The day was beautifully fine and there were a
vast number of them. They all went down
to the castle green in the middle of which we had a large table with all the
antiquities we could gather in Flint upon it.
I had my old coins there. We had
a large ___ of ___ that we found by the castle walls in digging, and it is
supposed to be as old as the castle itself.
There was a full report of the meeting in the Current. I tried to get one for you but I did not
succeed.
The Bagillt Literary Society I fear is sinking but I have
not had an opportunity of inquiring. I
probably may hear something about it
again next time I write or perhaps R. Williams may tell much ___ for the
paper. I think the newspapers in
American are rather poor affairs . They
are not like the English. They have too
much nonsense in them. The paper you
send is the best but it is no friend of ___ Balls. I believe your father will not write this
time as I told him I would give you all this information.
Wishing you every prosperity to be,
Yours sincerely,
Thomas Gleave
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