Bagillt
Oct. 1, 1869
Dear Richard,
I send these few lines to you in hopes to find you all
enjoying the best of health as these leaves us but very indifferent, but your mother’s
leg has gotten very near well thank god for that, for it has plagued her very
much, and you must allow me for not writing to you sooner for I have got a very
bad leg myself and it makes me very downhearted to do nothing, and as you can
see by my writing that my hands is shaking very much, and as you was saying
that your uncle meant to help you with a little money for to send home, we
should be very glad and thankful if you could send by the twelfth or thirteenth
of November. It would do for the rent
day and we shall not be here long for to trouble you nor nobody else.
PS – You wanted me to send your Uncle James’ address to
you. I cannot get his address nowhere
nor I cannot give it myself and we have never heard from him nothing as yet,
and I saw Rowlang Hughes about a month or six weeks back and I gave him your
address and he said that he would send to you there and then and I have never
seen him since, and as for Mary Ellen Davies I cannot say nothing about her,
only that she has got a place in some part of Liverpool to play her piano, but
I cannot say where for I never see none of her family for to know nothing, and
it seems that you wanted Mary Ellen to get herself ready by August next and
that you would send money to fetch her and that you would come to New York to
meet her and I thought that a very good chance for her myself, but her mother
says she shall not come. They say that they
are going to write to you themselves, but I don’t know when you said in your
last that you would write to your Uncle John and send him my letter in
yours. I should wish to know if you have
sent to him and if you have had an answer or not from him for he has never sent
home this two years if not more.
PS – Your mother desires me to tell you that she is praying
very much that God will give her health and strength for to live until next
summer, that is in expectation to see your Uncle Edwin coming home to England
once more according to his promise in his own letter as he sent himself that we
should see him then if all would be well, and we should be very glad to see him
and your Aunty Corning then I am sure.
PS – Humphrey & Charlotte and all the children send
their kind respects to you and also Mr. & Mrs. Thomas send their kind
respects to you and also Mr. Judson and all.
Old friends and acquaintances send their best respects to you and they
all say that they would be very glad to see you.
PS – Thomas and Harriet Roberts sends their kind respects to
you. Thomas is going to sea now. He is mate and a fine schooner coasting being
to Plymouth last and going this next time to British Channel just the same place
called Bridgemaster.
Now at last from your dutyful father& mother, Robert
& Sarah Benjamin, in hopes that the whole family will take this and it all
as can. Write soon again and don’t take
it unkind of me for not writing sooner for my leg has been very troublesome for
me and indeed is yet no better hardly.
RB
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