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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D517/BOX/12/9/4/17
Former ReferenceD517/BOX/12/7/12/2
TitleLetter from Miss E Edgell in Bath to Mrs Oliver, Cherry Orchard near Bristol regarding Mary Feilding
Date31 Dec 1804
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorMiller Mundy family of Shipley Hall, Heanor
FormatDocument
TermLetters (documents)
Transcript or IndexMadam
I have been too unwell with
a dreadful cold to answer your letter till
this morning, otherwise should have informed
you Miss Feilding left my House for
Mrs Percivals on Wednesday last, contrary
to my wish & in opposition to every persuasion
of mine, having nothing to reproach myself
with respecting my conduct to you, or that
young lady I feel much hurt by the
severity of your letter. When I took Miss
Feilding it was on the supposition that she
would conform to the rules necessary to be observ’d
in a regular House of business, & attend to
the good advice you gave her at parting
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which I have constantly endeavour’d to enforce
as much as possible & in order that what I
said might have more effect have uniformly
treated her with all the kind attention
in my power, in return for which I have
rec[eive]d the greatest neglect of my business, my
advice, & such a general mark’d contempt
that it was impossible I could submit to
having such an example before the rest
of my family in short I was made so very
uncomfortable by her manners as determin’d me
to address you on the subject but you will
find Madam on enquiry, I made no transfer
of Miss Feildings services to another, on the
contrary I beg’d & intreated she would consult
with you on the situation she had in view &
wait your answer before she accepted it, telling
her at the same time she was at liberty to remain
with me till it was perfectly convenient for you to
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remove her, which however she declin’d.
The premium you paid me with Miss
Feilding I am willing to return whenever
call’d upon deducting a reasonable
sum for her Board & Lodging during
the time she has been in my house
as my situation in life will not admit
of receiving a stranger into it for 4 months
(who [has] not only been totally useless to [me]
but more trouble than I ever before experie-
nc’d) neither would I dare say Miss Feilding’s
friends expect, or indeed submit to such a
thing from me.
I am Madam
Yr humble servant
E Edgell
Bath
1804 Decr 31

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