Bagillt,
November 16, 1855
Dear Children,
I take the pleasure of sending a few lines once more to you
in hopes to find you in good state of health and was very glad to hear in your
last that it was so, but these few lines does not leave us so well as when I
wrote to you last for your mother has got such a severe cold about a fortnight
back and it got as a blast all through her, and she just at the same time got a
bit of a cut on the fore part of one of her legs and the blast got into that
and it has caused her through all to keep her in bed a few days, but she has
got up in the room this morning while I am writing, but am in hopes she will
recover soon, but it makes her a great deal worse that is to think about your
brother James , that is knowing nothing about him nor the name of the vessel
nor nothing, but in hopes she will be a little easier now about him for we
received a letter from Liverpool today from Richard Hughes, Nancy Hughes’s
son. He made a solemn promise to me
while I was in Liverpool to see for James that he would do the best endeavor he
could to find out the name of the vessel and it seems that he has found it out
for he sent a letter here this morning .
The ship as James went out with was the Asignessed [?] to Liverpool that
arrived in the West Indies on the sixth of November and the name of the vessel
is the Majestic as I have had it this morning and they think that she will
arrive back again in Liverpool about Christmas.
PS – We are in hopes that you received all our letters for
you did not mention anything in your last that you had or had not received the
letters as I wrote last to Dedham to Edwin for I had sent double envelopes on
it for fear that he had gone off to you.
And also we are in great hopes that you will bear it in mind and take it
up between you two of what I have sent to you in my former letter that is about
the rent, that you will send it by the first of January, for Mr. Faulks says
that he is wanting a twelve months for his rent that he expects to have it in
the day, that he can get tenants as will pay him every six month and we can
easy believe him for there is a great many sick that we are in it. So are in great hopes that you will not
deceive us for this time to try again for I know and indeed you are well as
ever yourselves & it would be putting your mother out of the way so much
that it would cause her to break her heart happen after being here so many years and all. And another thing is it is yea as has the
praise from all the neighbors always that we could never live in such a place
only for you two. We are three weeks in
receiving your letters now. We should
wish to know something about some newspapers that we don’t receive none at all
and there is so many coming to the house for to see for them, and I sent you the
Flintshire Observer last week to see how you would like it. It comes out the first of every month and you must
send if you like to have it.
PS – I have to inform you of the death of old Mr. Jones the
watchmaker on the night of the first of November, eating their supper as usual
and by going to bed. When upstairs she
says to Miss Jones that they were going to bed like man and wife and just gave
one turn or two in bed and groaned once or twice and expired there and then,
and it makes both him and his sister very troublesome since, and there has none
of us been in Holywell since we received your letter, and have not seen Mr.
Gardner this good while and also Mr. Gleave, I have not seen him this good bit
and the last two or three times I did see him and told him of not sending to
you and all he has to say to me is that you might think that all is right by
him sending the newspapers altogether.
They have begun working a little there again this last week or else
closing nothng this three months or better.
Therefore I must conclude for the present with all your
brothers’ and sisters’ kind regard to you all, and your sister Charlotte says
that Edwin does not fulfill his promise with her. You Edwin must excuse this time. I was thinking to send a few lines by themselves
to him but my time is all taken up now, being without your mother’s helper and getting the carpenters wood to cut every
day and everything. And this from your
dutyful father and mother,
Robert & Sarah Benjamin
You must give all our respects to R.G. Benjamin and M. A.
Ellen Benjamin and we are very glad to hear that they are getting such fine
fellows and here is some kisses for them. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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