Bagillt
July 25, 1851
Dear John,
We received your letter of the 23rd June and was
very glad to hear that you were both well and healthy and that you got
everything and comfortable, and we all wish for it to remain so with you, and
we hope that Elizabeth likes the country after venturing the wide ocean for to
come into it, and we all join in love to you both and wish you much joy and
happiness, and to inform you about ourselves we are part the same as usual only
your mother has been very bad upon __ but thank God that it is no worse with
us, and as for your sister Mary Ellen she has been very bad. She has fallen off so much that you would
hardly know her if you would see her, and she has been to the country now this
fortnight and we have heard from her today and that she is coming on very
good. She is out at ___ at Robert Jones
Flint’s sister and they are very good to her there everybody she says, and she
gets a basin full of __ milk from the can every morning and it does agree with
her very well. She says ___ us for that
miserable Price, as you call him, for he has never shown his face here, but I
was at the mill last Tuesday and Mr. Gleave came to me and told me that he had
received a letter from him and he said that he was married and that his wife’s
father had died and had left her all his ___ and they say that she is worth
about two thousand pounds, and that he is going but to America again, that he
means to go to ___ when he will be going that he should call upon Mr. Gleave.
Mr. Gleave and Robert Williams sends their respects to you
and that they should write to you soon, for I told the both that day that you
had sent in your letter that they had never sent an answer to the letters as
you had sent to them, and Robert Williams told me that he did not like to write
for he means to go to London in the next week, he thinks, to the Exhibition and
then he should have some news for to send to you, and in regard to Samuel
Hughes and his wife, they have been here one night last week enquiring if we
had any news and they were very glad to hear about everything being so
comfortable with you, and he told me that he means to write to you very soon for
they mean for to try to come out to the states in August if possible, and they
send their greatest respects to you both, and likewise your brothers and
sisters sends their kind respects to you and that they are all well in health, and
both Mr. Jones the __ of Holywell, the Rev Mr. Jones, the minister of Holywell
is very desirable to be kindly remembered to you and that they are very thankful to you for
the cards as you sent to them, and they wish you much joy and happiness, and as
for the cause of your mother’s head been so bad
as that Mr. Maurice lives at Flint, as I informed you before, he goes
past here several times in a week some times and he is certain to call every
time and he is beginning to go very
cross and I cannot tell you more than you know about it and it keeps so sorry
here that a person cannot save six pence for to __ ahead __ __ __ __.
So your mother and all of us is longing for to have a long
letter from Elizabeth for your mother says that she should never forget
her. Therefore they all join in love to
you both and wish you well from your dutiful father and mother, Robert &
Sarah Benjamin, and so God bless you both and we hope He will remain with you
forever. Amen
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