Bagillt,
November 25, 1853
Dear Children,
I take the pleasure of sending these few lines to you in
answer to yours as we received yesterday, and was glad to hear of you been all
well, and as I am glad to inform you that your mother is a great deal better and
also your brother James has come to himself pretty well, and as for myself I am
partly the same as usual, thanks be to God for it, and as for the house I
hardly don’t know what to say to you about it, that is we cannot get a license
into it without having it all in one house all through, and so we can have it
and Mr. Faulks has gone to a power of expenses upon that subject, and there has
a great many been with Mr. Faulks wanting it and saying to him that I was a man
that was not working and how did he expect to have his rent from me, and he
made an answer to two or three different partys that I had paid for it this
fifteen years and that he meant to try us, and I beg of you to send me your
advice about it and that as soon as you can with the next mail, and to see what
Edwin will say about it for it is to be twenty pounds rent if not more, and to
see what he will be so kind as to allow us yearly towards it, and we shall make
a promise that we shall keep Harriet in school, and there is all neighbors is
sadly afraid of us losing our hotel of it for everybody says that we should
make business in it, for there is not near such a house in the place, if you
was to see it you would not know it. And
another thing, I believe we run the best risk of anybody for having the club
from the Wen House if they do shift, and there has a great talk of it been
so ___, and I beg of you to take it to
consideration and send back as brief as you can, for we partly can tell if
house be of some good to us, and as for the little business as we do it does
not keep us as it is, and indeed I can tell you it would of been rather hard
upon us lately only for your sister Charlotte being very good to us, and we
hope and trust that you will get Edwin to prepare for us against Christmas for
he knows what all is before he started, and if he can get everything right against then,
nobody shall have room to put their finger in our pie, and Mr. Faulks has been
telling me that he expects to have all right then.
Your mother desires for me to send and tell Elizabeth that
she is very thankful to her for her kindness towards Edwin and to keep him from
the Yankee women as much as she can. I
meant to write a small ___ to Edwin or else he will be bent.
So all of your brothers and sisters sends their kind respects
to you all and except the same from your dutyful father and mother,
Robert and Sarah Benjamin
PS
– We are very glad to hear your good news of M. A. Ellen. We wish you and her all good success
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