| Sender Location | Wrangle Vicarage [Boston, Lincolnshire] |
| Recipient Location | 16 Upper Seymour Street [in pencil] |
| Transcript or Index | (in pencil) to 16 Upper Seymour St
Nov.ber 8th
Wrangle Vicarage
My dear Eleanor,,
I was on the point of writing to tell you I had seen some report in the St. James’s Chronicle of the arrival etc of Sir James Ross from his unsucessful search for my dear Brother and his party when your kind letter arrived. It is indeed charitable to set my mind at rest, as any subject as far as you can – it is constantly at work about your dear Father, when it is not weighed down with various other cares and anxieties. Still I do not give up all hope, the Esquimaux might is possible miscalculate the time the ships were in the Inlet or they might mistake the number of ships. Being however forewarned of the treachery and falsehood of the Esquimaux despair will sometimes fight against Hope, but she has a strong anchor made fast to the Rock of ages, and I am very unwilling to lose sight of such a stay – If however the worst come, that he who is so dear to us is to be seen no more may we be able to yield su[b]missively to God’s will.
How much better would it have been for Jane to have waited patiently in London until this time – surely you, and all your dear Father’s Sisters, have as strong and unfeigned a love for him, tho’ we have not striven to make ourselves so conspicious. Neither in my opinion is it proper in women to do so – it is unbecoming that modesty recommended in scripture, as the peculiar grace of a woman.
I feel persuaded you will do all you can to see Mary, but remember I do not ask what you are not able under your present trying circumstances to perform. I thank God you have got so kind and good a protector in your Husband.
Say everything kind for me to Sir John Richardson, tell him my dear Mary is under Dr Marshall Hall’s care – please-
Ever believe me with love to your Husband from all
Your affect.te Aunt
Henrietta Wright.
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