Hayley-XXI-63
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| This Item | Author | Item: Hayley, Eliza (Ball) |
| This Item | Recipient | Item: Hayley, William |
| This Item | Sent from (place) | Item: Derby (one of multiple locations/lodgings) |
| This Item | Sent to (place) | Item: Eartham House |
| This Item | Mentioned | Item: Beridge (Twigge), Maria |
| This Item | Mentioned | Item: Beridge, Mrs |
| This Item | Mentioned | Item: Gladwin, Mrs |
| This Item | Mentioned | Item: Scarborough |
| This Item | Mentioned | Item: Brighthelmstone |
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[page 1]
June 20 1792
My dear H
There are so few things that answer expectation that I have even most cordially subscribed to the favorite Maxim of yours that “to give quickly is to give twice” I therefore lose no time in satisfying your poetical feelings by the soothing reflexion of having driven me from my old friends & the southern coast this summer –
Indeed I delayed my reply two posts in the hope of telling you I could fix on a northern bathing place - but after a fatiguing night with the idea of Scarborrow [sic] (which I knew to be more than Brighthelmstone beyond my reach) I have for three days been engaged in a fruitless search after an obscure \sea/ bathing place upon the Lincolnshire coast. I
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I therefore for the present decline making any farther reply to your letter as my spirits require repose I am
Yrs sincerely
Eliza Hayley
I shewed your letter to M.rs Twigge.
I suppose you have seen M.rs Beridges [sic] death in the papers - a cruel loss to M.rs Gladwin
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Wm Hayley Esqre
Eartham
near Chichester
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