Jewsbury, Maria Jane (1800-1833). - Letter, from an unstated address, to Dora Wordsworth (1804-1847), at an unstated address, dated 2 October 1826. WLMS A / Jewsbury, Maria Jane / 7.

October 2d - <1826>

"Bonnie Lassie" -

Where are you? & what are you doing? - finishing the promised despatch to myself - or playing with your dog? or nursing your cold? - Not the latter I hope - for you have had a week to cure it in - Your Aunt left us on Tuesday evening - & with [in] left a frank & injunctions to send you a line, which I also intended, stating

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the time of her departure - she did I hope receive pleasure from her visit no thanks to me, for I was invisible nearly the whole of every day - but Mentor & Mr Burra, & she, & a yellow pig, & brown Bobby - travelled - & saw - "words are wanting to say what" - You will hear - & you will see - for she has got some pictures for baby - she is a real darling - the exemplification of "an old age serene & bright, & lovely as a Lapland night." Kenilworth she knows by heart stick & stone - Warwick she has absolutely digested -

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St Mary's Chapel & Guy's Cliff included - Stratford & Charlecote - she swallowed whole - & bye bits of rides & sights - went down between times.

I only regret that [[-?-] ] not being so well, & having a very [unusual] fit of comparative depression prevented my enjoying her company as I should have done - as one day I may do - but that one day is apparently a good long way off as children say. - Expect no descriptions of this place - and why? - Because I don't like it - And why again? Because I am tied by the leg & can't

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get out to see - what is to be seen - & so I cry out "sourgrapes" - However for half an hour I[[-?-] ]for brown Bobby & dear kind Mr Burra drawl & dawdle me at a foots pace down the Macadamised street & then I look thro' my mufflings at green fields & yet green trees - & sigh - & then sigh again for shame that I have sighed before when I have so much happiness, distinct from frail external transitory pleasure. Farewell - I have to send your Aunt a parcel -

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In that parcel I mean to write you a letter - If you are well enough let me have A line - but not if you are unwell. Love to all & believe me dearest Dora

Faithfully affectionately MJJ

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Miss Carletons are here - Miss Bayley comes to me on the 9th or 10th Love to E.C. if not gone.

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Object summary: WLMS A / Jewsbury, Maria Jane / 7