Letter

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  • Reference
      GB 133 DDWes/7/39
  • Former Reference
      GB 135 DDWes/7/39
      GB 135 Charles Wesley Leather Volume 3, page 39.
  • Dates of Creation
      12 Aug [1800]

Scope and Content

From Charles Wesley junior in London, to Sally Wesley at Miss Doddridge's house in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Their mother is 'feeble in the extreme' with a violent rash and severe depression. Mr Anderdon believes that it is a result of the warm weather.

Miss Williams is visiting her deafness has worsened.

Their mother does not know that Charles is writing, as she does not wish her daughter to be worried, and is hoping that Sally will be able to visit their cousin in Gloucester on the way back to London.

Charles would wish to visit the sea side with Sally in September, as he really feels like a change of air.

In a postscript he adds that [James] Waller is very ill, and that Miss Cope is trying to get him to Hastings or Margate in Kent.