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D3580 - Longsdon family of Little Longstone - [14th-20th Cent]
- C - Correspondence

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D3580/C/349
Title	12 August 1813 Venus. Stonegate Creek. John Longsdon to Mother. Thanks for letter of 4 Aug. Glad health improving and hay harvest completed. In excellent health and will be glad when can come to see her. In response to petitions from passengers in packets, Privy Council say strictest quarantine must be observed without specifying time or limit. Farmers around them cutting corn. Bessy says writer's god daughter with her. Wishes she would keep her until writer comes having great desire to see her. Thanks Bessy for note, glad she visited Mrs WHM's family in Yorkshire. No fresh accounts from Malta - general opinion that heat of July weather will end plague - still see no great danger to English inhabitants unless those who volunteer as guardians take too much liberty with the infected. Acquainted with a gentleman who was at Constantinople when 3000 died daily and he walked about town without considering himself in much danger. Peculiar habits of the Eastern people render them liable to the plague in a much greater degree than inhabitants of their part of world. Sorry for weak state of her brother's health. His return home after so long an absence will take her to Cliff. Hopes Mrs Barker returns in improved health from sea bathing. Thanks James for letter. What prospect for game this season? and what farming news?
Date	1813
Level	file
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Longsdon family of Little Longstone

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