Log in to Scripto | Recent changes | View item | View file | Transcribe page | View history
Hayley-XXI-19
hayley_XXI-19_0206_201909_mfj22_dc1.jpg
| Revision as of Nov 21, 2019, 10:02:49 AM created by LisaGee |
Revision as of Dec 27, 2021, 10:40:59 AM edited by LisaGee |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| + | [page 3] | ||
| + | |||
the trifle of 5 Guineas a year towards his Clothes – I consulted Cowper on my Idea – He thought it a happy one for both the Lads - & spoke so much in favor of Tom the Elder & his Parents that I brought Him \hither/ both as a Preceptor & a Pupil to the lesser Tom & I think the Project seems to answer my expectation, as the Boys are very good Friends, & contribute I trust to Each others Improvement — Tom the Elder is I think with some singularities a very good Lad – He is an Oddity in his Person & manners & puts me a little in Mind of our little Friend Flaxman – If He makes as valuable a Man I shall have great reason to be proud of my young charge – His age is between 14 & 15 but as He has something between deformity & dwarfishness in his Person He is not so much taller than Tom the little as you might expect — But it is Time to end my long Story of <u>the two Toms</u> which I must not do without adding they are both well – Tom the little is highly flattered by yr kind attention to his Portrait & adds his Love & best wishes to those | the trifle of 5 Guineas a year towards his Clothes – I consulted Cowper on my Idea – He thought it a happy one for both the Lads - & spoke so much in favor of Tom the Elder & his Parents that I brought Him \hither/ both as a Preceptor & a Pupil to the lesser Tom & I think the Project seems to answer my expectation, as the Boys are very good Friends, & contribute I trust to Each others Improvement — Tom the Elder is I think with some singularities a very good Lad – He is an Oddity in his Person & manners & puts me a little in Mind of our little Friend Flaxman – If He makes as valuable a Man I shall have great reason to be proud of my young charge – His age is between 14 & 15 but as He has something between deformity & dwarfishness in his Person He is not so much taller than Tom the little as you might expect — But it is Time to end my long Story of <u>the two Toms</u> which I must not do without adding they are both well – Tom the little is highly flattered by yr kind attention to his Portrait & adds his Love & best wishes to those | ||
<p align="right">of yr affectionate<br> | <p align="right">of yr affectionate<br> | ||
H</p> | H</p> | ||
Revision as of Dec 27, 2021, 10:40:59 AM
[page 3]
the trifle of 5 Guineas a year towards his Clothes – I consulted Cowper on my Idea – He thought it a happy one for both the Lads - & spoke so much in favor of Tom the Elder & his Parents that I brought Him \hither/ both as a Preceptor & a Pupil to the lesser Tom & I think the Project seems to answer my expectation, as the Boys are very good Friends, & contribute I trust to Each others Improvement — Tom the Elder is I think with some singularities a very good Lad – He is an Oddity in his Person & manners & puts me a little in Mind of our little Friend Flaxman – If He makes as valuable a Man I shall have great reason to be proud of my young charge – His age is between 14 & 15 but as He has something between deformity & dwarfishness in his Person He is not so much taller than Tom the little as you might expect — But it is Time to end my long Story of the two Toms which I must not do without adding they are both well – Tom the little is highly flattered by yr kind attention to his Portrait & adds his Love & best wishes to those
of yr affectionate
H