| Sender Location | Wrangle Vicarage [Boston, Lincolnshire] |
| Transcript or Index | Wrangle Vicarage Oct.br 6th [1852 - in pencil]
My dear Eleanor
Thank you for your letter received this morning which gave me so satisfactory an account of dear Catherine and her Babes. Mary has rallied so much since Friday evening that Richard, Arthur and Alice are gone to Skegness to day to see the children. How thankful I have been could I have accompanied them, but I must consent to be stationary. Nothing but my being so tied would have kept me from going to Catherine long ago, for I felt very anxious about her before she was confined. What are the little sprites to be called? I was really grieved to know that you are in such delicate health, few things would afford me greater comfort than to offer you every indulgence in aby large house, but poor Mary's illness has completely precluded me either from receiving my friends , or from going to see them for nearly four years past. She has certainly rallied a great deal and the most distressing symptoms have abated, but I do not think her out of danger, by any means, and shall not be surprized at her having a relapse any hour. She can sit up in bed, propped up with pillows and a bed chair. She has an excellent nurse and every earthly comfort but nothing avails to re-establish her health. My Husband has been a sad sufferer from the most painful of all complaints. The passing of a large stone has afforded him temporary relief so that he certainly is better but far from well, Alice has recovered from the measles, but her Father's and Mary's illness shook her nerves very much and she has had a bad cough. We have had a servant so ill, that it was feared she had scarletina last week. However, those symptoms abated, but she was confined still to her bed, and become so ill, I have been compelled to send her away for a time to be nursed by her friends. So when this House will cease to be a Hospital as well as a Nunnery (as a gentleman in this neighbourhood used to call it) I don't know.
Alice wants to write to Catherine as soon as she can read her letter with impunity. Very sincerely do I wish Mr and Mrs Dixon may be happy. The children at Skegness are well, they have not returned.
Remember me very kindly to Catherine and Drummond. Kiss the dear Babes for me. I think I must steal one to nurse for a little variety of nursing, tell Catherine. Remember me also kindly to Mr Gell and your dear children as well as to Drummond. I shall keep my letter open until the last moment before the post leaves Wrangle in the hope that the young tribe may be home from Skegness and that I may give the latest tidings Catherine's [?]Discussions of their children.
Believe me, my dear Eleanor to be
your affect.te Aunt
Henrietta W.Wright
Will you tell Catherine that John Wright and his wife & servants have turned out of their house and been obliged to go to Louth,as Mrs Millington's child has been attacked there by Typhus Fever and they are compelled to leave nurses to attend upon it and to be there themselves. This surely is a great trial - it is not expected that the child can recover - she is eight years old, she who knows the circumstances will acknowledge thsi to be a real affliction. |