Bagillt
May 26, 1854
Dear John & Elizabeth,
I take the pleasure once more in sending these few lines to
you in hopes to find you all enjoying the blessings of good health as these
leave me partly the same, thanks be to God, but your mother has been of late
very ill with a severe cold, but she is getting better of it now, and I have to
I inform you that she received the likeness all safe and sound and that on last
Wednesday was a week, and I could not send to you no sooner than this week, and
we were very glad to see them and everybody is, and indeed even to ourselves likewise
is sadly surprised to see your brother Edwin gone so as he is, and everybody
says that Elizabeth is very deserving of very great praise for feeding him so
well to get, and the charge of duty in bringing them over was at Liverpool was
5/2, and Mr. Gleave sent with your brother James what the money was, for he
received a letter from Liverpool on account of them and your mother sent the
money with your brother and they came to the mill that day and Mr. Gleave sent
back one ___ on his share upon the account of the book, and the next day I
wanted to go to Holywell for new iron to put on the cart wheels for I have been
obliged to go to the expense of making one wheel of new altogether, and being
of great expense for someone as is weak, and I have to tell you that when your
mother saw the little child how it made her, for she thinks so much of the
little thing, and I took them to Holywell that day and I turned to Mr. Jones
the watchmaker for to see them and he admired the little child very much and
sadly surprised to see your brother Edwin gone so fat and ___ in so short a
time, and he says that all looked well but he admired the little child above
all, for he says that he must of kept himself so sturdy and being so young, and
Mr. Jones said as I was telling him that you all was praising the child how she
was coming on so well that you should sent the child’s portrait as it was at
the present, that it would not of been __ but a trifling expense to you along
with the rest, and to tell you when we have the portraits returned from
Holywell . We shall send then to Flint
to Mr. Daneson but we must keep them at home for a day or two for the
house. After I went to Holywell the next
day was half full of people all days almost. Somebody had gave the word out
that our family had all come home from America and by them going the next day
away we have not had got very little time on them ourselves but howsomever we
shall have them at home at last we hope, and I assure you that there will be great joy
taken .
PS - I have another
thing to inform of and I hope that you will not take it unkind of both your
mother and myself of what I am going to tell you, for I shall tell you the truth
and nothing else . Mr. Faulks has been
___ of us altogether about this house and now it has gone to the furthest point.
He has kept saying altogether from the
first beginning that he wished for us to take before anybody else, and now
there has a person as lives in the traveler’s rest being with him wanting it,
and that he would bring his license along with him, and Mr. Faulks came here
yesterday and we were obliged to do something that was not going to keep the
other part of the house empty no longer, and we have settled to take it, and I
hope you will not be offended to us for so doing for he kept saying altogether
if it would do anybody else any good
that he could see it would do for us the same. I shall let you have more in your brother’s
letter.
So all your brothers and sisters sends their kind respects
to you and none of them has seen the likeness yet until they come from Holywell,
and this from your dutyful father and mother,
Robert & Sarah Benjamin
…..in a little haste.
Little Mary Ellen Jones sends her kind respects to her cousin Mary Ann
Ellen and sends kisses ooooooooo
PS – According to your request that is about your Uncle John’s
money, there is your uncle Thomas & Edward is before your mother, and they
have made a great deal of work about everything but of no use, for the parson
of Caerwys had make a will for him, and he was there that evening after the
funeral was over and read it to all, and your mother and James was there and I
was not, and both your uncles played the old neck there before the parson and
all, and kept saying to the parson and your aunt that it was her will
altogether and nobody else’s, and according to what the will said was that all
the money at the bank was for your aunt Mary and never mentioned how much, and
all the house furniture also, and your mother says altogether that she never
heard a word in the will about the house in Holywell, but I am saying that it
might be and her not bear it in mind, and all as was left to your two uncles
and your mother was two pounds apiece, and as we have heard that she must sneak
off in a few days to St. Asaph to have the will proved, and I will assure you
that I thought after that that I should of lost your mother after that upon the
account for she never thought but she should be left equal share with her sister. At any rate therefore I can’t give you no
information any further, but your mother asked your aunt what money had he in
the bank and the answer she made was that she would not tell her, but that he
had a deal and that’s all .
PS – As you can see in Edwin’s letter about your brother
James, I will know you can put a spoke in the ___ ___ well for he was in the
office last week asking for more wages and the old master smith told him that
he better go to America to the rest and then he would get more then and indeed
he barely says above ___ his meat in these days for everything is so dear.
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