Bagillt
August 14, 1857
Dear Edwin,
I for once more take the opportunity of sending a few lines
to you in hopes of finding you all enjoying the best of health as these leaves
both your mother and myself but very indifferent indeed, for I myself have been
laid up for about eighteen or nineteen weeks with a very bad leg as we should
suppose as Robert Williams might of told you as he was here two or three times
before he came to America. And we are
sadly surprised what have we done to you and your brother John, that we are
gone that it is not worth your while to send a single letter to your father and
mother, and I think that we are not deserving of being used in that way, for I
have sent you 8 letters and we have never received an answer, only to the first two of them atall, and we
have never received one letter from you since the 19th of November,
1855, and that is 21 months ago, and we told Robert Williams all about it,
these things, before he came, and he would not allow me to write a few lines to
take with him for he said that he could tell the things better himself, and we have no doubt but he
has told you all our conversations as we
told him and as he was well aware of them himself, and we have been ___ waiting
to hear from you after his arrival until now thinking that you ere this would
have sent something or other about yourselves , either your brother John or
yourself . We have never got nothing
from him since January 1857 and that a small note in Mr. Gleave’s ___ and said
in that that he had received a letter from cousin Jones the watchmaker in
Holywell and that he would be sending to him soon, and that he could send one
in that again, and then he has never sent nothing to him atall and they can’t
think what is to do with him as he don’t send to them, and we can find that
Robert Williams has sent home two or three times since he has arrived in
America and cannot find as nothing is said about us in any one of them
atall. Therefore, don’t you think that
it makes us quite uneasy to think that as he is along with you must send home
and you cannot send as much as a single line or other. We think that it is a great shame for you and
also your brother John that you can use your poor father and mother in the same
way, and I do believe that it is a sin too for you to be so, and you making so
many promises as you did and does not perform any of them atall. We are quite ashamed to give people an answer
when they ask us if we don’t hear from you and have to tell them that we don’t
hear atall. And we have to tell you that
you said you would send our rent in your last, that you would send it by the
first of January 1856 and never heard from you since, and Mr. Faulks is without
the money ever since and none besides, and he often threatens us to upset us
upon the account that he can’t see that you send us anything atall, that it is too much expense and trouble
for to write a few lines home, let alone send any money. He was here last week saying the same,
therefore we don’t know what to say to him for I can assure you when he turns
us from here we have nowhere to go to but to the union workhouse , and that is
a true fact for you as I am sorry that I
have it for Robert to you and I am sorryer [sic] to tell you as you well know
that yourselves before you went away to America that I cannot work myself, to
my sorrow, in these days .
Therefore your brothers and sisters sends their kind respects to you
all , and this from your dutyful father and mother,
Robert & Sarah Benjamin
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