Item MFP/5/8/13 - Letter from Jane Pontey to Joseph Munby, York

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Letter summary:
She notes that the second half of the letter was written a fortnight after she started. Her husband had needed much attention since having a paralytic stroke. Regrets that she saw so little of Joseph on her visit but notes that neither of them had expected the visit to be to short. She expresses surprise that his wife had scarcely spoken to her, not asked her to call, but she understood that she was very amiable and ‘great allowances must be made for the indulgent manner she has been brought up, and young wives expect more attention from their husbands than it sometimes are in their powers to give’. She is delighted they have a son. Hopes Joseph will do the best for his brothers. John ‘must have altered his mind very much to think of the Church as he would not hear of it when it was mentioned.’ She is also concerned that Lucy is spending too much time near the school and is too confined for the good of her health.

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