Bagillt
November 10, 1854
Dear J. & Elizabeth,
I take the pleasure of dropping a few lines to you in hopes
of finding you enjoying the best of health as this leaves us better than we
have been since we wrote last, for your mother has been since then that we had
Michael Jones and Robert Taylor to attend to her, and indeed I got afraid that
we should loose her, but she has got a good deal better, and another thing she
has got sadly vexed after we received your letters that you all of you took
good care that none of you said or mentioned a word in your letters about
neither Elizabeth nor the children, nor Elizabeth herself did not send one word
to her. Therefore she is so tedious
after being ill that she took it so unkind that you would not believe. She has been crying here and going on at all
rate about it.
Another thing we were very glad to hear you say in your
letter that you had got settled in your new house, in great hopes that you will
be comfortable and it gave your mother and myself great satisfaction about your
brothers been together with you in great hopes that they will be sober and
steady and strive their best for to please you and be comfortable together.
Another thing I have as I am sorry to relate to you, and you
can know yourself how to go on further about it, and that is Mr. J. Garner of
Holywell is very ill, and a person from Holywell has been telling me that he
has been talking to the doctor about him and he had no great hopes of him, that
he thought that was in a ____ but we are in great hopes that he will come
better again.
PS – I have to inform you that we received the money all
right and William Pierce was rather vexed that he did not get the whole for he
thought when he was giving them to me that he should had them all before this
and I shall be obliged to pay some interest on them. Therefore I hope they will be sure to send as
soon as possible for he says he is upon laying money out altogether now. Therefore we are in great hopes that you
will be so kind as to look after them in such things as these as a father, and
it will be a great blessing to you and in great hopes that you ___ them well
though being in a distant land. Even forget your poor father & mother as is
striving their best for to get a crust and very hard it is to be got for
everything is so dear with us altogether.
And another thing I have to tell you of is they know very
well according to promise before they went from home, that is our rent is due
on the first day of January, and Mr. Faulks has been with your mother the other
day I was not home and telling her that he hoped that there would be no mistake
with us with him in the latter end of the year, for he is about buying some
place again then and that he expected to have his money all then, and it let
your mother so lame when she saw only half the money for William Pierce ___
that you would not believe. There is a twelve month rent one half six
pence and the other half twelve pounds.
Our rent now is 24 pounds and Mr. Faulks was so kind as to lend your
mother to commence business with between four and five pounds and he works also
then and if you could make it up then with them they should have quiet for some
time after, and if we shall loose now, the place is very ready for somebody to
come in to it, and we don’t know one out of twenty as would be for it.
So I must conclude for present with our kind regards to you
all, and this from your dutyful father and mother,
Robert & Sarah Benjamin
Must leave room for your mother…….
PS – Your mother’s signature.
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