JB/537/221/001

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Chelmsford Sepr 7th. 1769

Dear Sammy

Your Papa being very much engagd, desires
me to answer your Letters, which I do with pleasure, tho' not
so great as if I had the Happiness of being acquainted with
the family you are with. since the want of that knowledge
obliges me to confine my Pen within ye very narrow limits of
the John not Styles; such as saying, we are glad to hear you
are well, for as to your being happy, we were to well assurd
of its being ye Consequence of your being in Suffolk that there
was scarce need of your Pens Corroborating as Circumstance we were
so certain of. we have read two Letters from your Essex
Brothers, (as you called 'em in your last) they are both in your
Situation, well & happy, & very much delighted with the kind
Notice taken of them by the principal families in ye Town:
Mr & Mrs Gray amongst many others, have been particularly obliging
in asking them to Dinner &c & every Tuesday they tell me is a

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Date_1	1769-09-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	221	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Sarah Bentham	Watermarks
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