Item MFP/5/4/2 - Letter from Caroline Forth at Doncaster to her mother, Mrs Forth, at Ganthorpe near Castle Howard

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Letter summary and transcription:
Caroline's first letter.

"My Dear Mamma,
I am happy to inform you that I am quite better and very happy and comfortable so you have no occasion to make yourself uneasy about me.
I hope you arriv'd safe at York to dinner Yesterday and found Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and Miss Kimber well. When you return home give my love to Miss Freers and Maria Knight and tell Maria I shall write to her soon. Tell Mrs. Bradshaw with my love her cake is a very good one and I am much obliged to her for it.
When you go to Mount Pleasant give my love to Mary and Elizabeth Heckley and tell them must come to Ganthorpe at Christmas and stay a week or two with us.
I remain with love to Miss Kimber your affectionate Daughter, Caroline Eleanor Forth

PS Mrs. Hough desires to be remembered to you and Miss Wilson."

On same sheet of paper, a letter from Dorothy Dinah Wilson wife of Thomas Wilson, banker:-

"My dear Madam,
In availing myself of your indulgent Permission to read Caroline's letter. I have derived much Gratification as it is so very satisfactory. I was very sorry it did not arrive Yesterday as I feared you might be uneasy. As the letter is dated the 15th, I conclude the cause of its delay has been its not having been put in the Post Office before 5 o'clock on Wednesday. I hope we shall have the Pleasure of finding you quite well on Tuesday and reconciled as far as can be expected to your Separation from your Little Girl. I can hardly describe how much her sensible Behaviour has interested me in her and I most anxiously hope that you will become daily more confirmed in your Resolution of allowing her to stay at Mrs. Haughs until that time of life when she will be fit to enter Life as a useful and ornamental member of Society. With the United Compts (?) all our Party, believe me, dear Madam

Very cordially your obliged D.D. Wilson."

[Summary and transcription provided by a volunteer.]

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