Bagillt,
December 15, 1869
Dear Edwin and Richard,
I for once more send a few lines to you as I am very sorry
what I have to relate to you this time as I have lost the best friend as I
had. I have lost your dear poor mother. It took place between one and two o’clock on
Sunday morning the fifth of December and she left me that I had not to speak a word
with her. But you must excuse me for
not writing sooner for I could not for you can see that my hand is shaking very
much. I sent a few lines in October and
I never received an answer to it. I was
obliged to do by your mother as Richard had sent in his last letter that you
had promised to assist him in sending us money for the rent and we think that
that pressed on her mind a good deal, for I had not the money for to pay and
they had to travel up and down the place until it was too late just, but you
got them borrowed last and I don’t know how I shall pay them back either, they
have never been paid yet.
Your mother had been for some weeks unwell and she had gone for
some time that she did not care about coming into the bakehouse at all
hardly. She kept telling Harriet all the
while for some time that she would not live long but did not like to say
anything to me for to ___ me and Harriett must not tell me what she was saying
to her. I don’t know what would become
of me only that Harriett was us now and indeed I cannot say now what will become
of me from now out if the Lord spares me for a little time more, for I have
gone very lame and clumsy that I cannot go about very little. I don’t
think that I shall be here long after your mother. She prayed a deal that we would both go
together but the Lord had no purpose of taking me at the present time.
I should be very thankful to you if you would be so kind as
to write to your brother John in my staid and to let him know all this. I have not heard nothing from him for above
two years. Whatever is the reason I don’t
know. Richard promised to write to him before
for me and I sent in my letter in October last to for to know whether Richard
has sent to John and got an answer or not, but I have never heard nothing from
Richard never since, whatever is the reason.
I must conclude for the present with the kind regard to you
all, and Mr. Judson and Mr. Thomas and
Mrs. Thomas and all enquiring friends sends their best respects to you all, and
all very sorry to lose your mother. Humphrey and Charlotte and the children sends
their best respects to you. Thomas and
Harriett sends the same and accept the same from your poor dutyful father as is
a great cripple as is sorry he has lost his best friend as he had this side of
the grave. Been together within four
months of fifty one years in the year 1819 on the fifth of April. Please to
write soon for I don’t think that I shall be here long to trouble none of you.
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