December 8, 1854
Dear J. & Elizabeth,
I take the pleasure of dropping a few lines to you in answer
to Edwin’s of which he sent without a date to it, which I believe must be the
21 ult. by the Dedham postmark, and was very glad to hear that you was all well
in health as it leaves us pretty well at present, thanks be to God for it, for
when I wrote last your mother had been very ill indeed, but thank God she has recovered
pretty well. I should think that you had
not received our letter when Edwin sent his last, and we received the ten
pounds as they sent to William Pierce all right, and he was very glad to have
them, and I thanked him most kindly for what he had done, and dear John I must
tell you that your mother is a deal easier as you are not leaving your brother,
for she was very uneasy to think of you leaving them, and as we told you in our
last that we were in great hopes that you would get them to bear in mind of
what they promised to us both of them before they came over, they would never
forget us and that they would be certain and think of sending us out rent, and
as I sent in our last that there is a twelve month’s rent due on us now on the
thirty first of December, and we have one half year six pounds and the other
half twelve pounds that is eighteen pounds, and as I have told you before that
Mr. Faulks is so kind with us since he has commenced on the place that we
should not wish to disappoint him in no way whatsomever, and he has given us
notice against the time that he hopes that we would not disappoint him in the
time, and if in case that they did that now they would have some quiet for some
time after, as James well knows that Mr. Faulks was so kind as to lend some
money for us to get our license with, and other things beside, and he expects
to have them also, and when I told him we had a letter this week he could ask
how you all were, and in a moment he could ask us if the lads had sent us
anything, and dear John we are in great hopes to get to hear from you that you
are getting your brother James up to your hand and that he will try and strive
his best to please you and Elizabeth, and we are always very thankful to her
for her kindness towards them at all times, and you must tell her from your
mother that she does not write to her according to promises beforehand.
PS – I told you in my last letter about Mr. Gardner of
Holywell that he was so ill but thanks he is a great deal better. He is coming down to his business now
altogether but as I told you he has been very bad. Mr. & Mrs. Jones the old ___ of Flint
sends their kind respects to you and that they are doing business there like
winking, and also all your brothers and sisters sends their kind regards to you
and also to little R. G. Benjamin and also little M.A.E. Benjamin and all the royal
family and except the same from your dutyful father and mother,
Robert & Sarah Benjamin
PS – We were sadly surprised to
hear of Price facing you again and we don’t know he could either after all as
he did to you, and sending a letter to Mr. Gleave that he had got married to a
woman as was worth a thousand pounds and everything, and nothing in it. At last I could not help thinking about all
his mischief if I was you.
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