Transcript or Index | [Note: spelling has not been corrected] Madam, Allow me to introduce myself to you, by the inclosed letters from two Friends whos death, I shall ever lament. The Oppinion the late Ld: Feilding had of my conduct, as a mother, & the Confitence he showed in trusting interely to my Direction the Education of his eldest son till to the age of 14 when he went to his Father, will I trust convince you, that althoug I was imprutend he always respected me. He knew my unfortunate history, & the bad man who was the cause of, & to whom I was to be maried in my Country, where I became acquainted with him. Mrs. Cotton too, ever since I was introduced to her, behaved with much civility, & kindness to me, till we had some words occasioned by her servant, & by which I felt to much hurt as to be able to repress my spirit; a short time after, I went to Germany & saw her no more. I have stated to you, all this madam, in hopes to meet with a liberal judgement, & that you will not think I assume to much liberty in addressing you, particularly, as it is on the subject of my Daughter. By the wish of procuring a respectable Establishement for her, I have yielded to much to my feelings. On reflecting I find it impossible to take her with me to India. I am confitend that I should bring on my son George who is so good, & so much respected by every person who knows him, trouble & mortification, & certainly she would bring that [page 2] upon us both. During the five months, she has been with me, I have seen so much of her disposition, that I desper she ever will mend her faulds. She naturally hates work, & only works becase she must. She is careless, & westfall [wasteful] extravagand. She is untidy, & has not much truth in her. After her arrival from Bath, her conduct gave me much satisfaction. I mentioned it, to Mr Mundy, & had she continuet to behave well, nothing should have parted me from her, but when after some time, I desired her to attend to our smal domestique concernes to save me that trouble, & lern her a little Housekeeping, she caused me so much vexation, that I was obliged to give up that point. I then told her, she must [..ed?] close to her neadle, as I could not otherwise maintain her, to that only I could keep her, by constantly wadching her. As she does very little attend to her work, she undoes in general the next day, what she has done the day before, so that her work brings very little benefit. In the morning she will not get up, her careleness & behaviour all together is such, that I could not endure it any longer. I confess I am not gifted with to much patiance, & can not calmly repeatedly remonstrate so that I got several times extremely angry with her, but to no purpose. When she is severly rebuked then she gest sulky, & if she things herself mortified & affronted her Temper, & Conduct become so agraveding, that she has provoked me to give her the most severe corection, & at last forced me to [page 3] part with her. I have placed her at Mrs Jaffers, who consented to keep her a week, which is elapsed to morrow, but I have been inconsequence of the trouble & vexation she has given me, this last ford- night, so unwell, that I have not been able to write before. I will be infinitly obliged to you Madam if you will inform her Guardian & request of him to write to Mrs Jaffers to let her stay with her, till some other situation is found for her. She has now my full consent to be a Mantua Maker, or anything where she decently can get her life; as to take her again unter my protection, or with me to India, is impossible, I would rather not go myself but as I still remain her Mother I wish to act for the best, & therfore intread you will ask Mr Mundy to take some steps fo her. Trusting you will kindly excuse the trouble I have taken the liberty of giving to you I have the honor to be Madam your most obediend s'd M Williams No 13 Sachevill Street Nov[em]b[er] the 16 1805
When last Sunday I parted with her, I told her I would giver her a few Days to consider, before I should inform her Guardian of her Conduct, in return for this indulgence, I received 3 days ago, a most insolent letter, saying that I had treated her like [page 4] a slave. She desired me to send her letter to her Guardian, which I should have done had not by chance a friend be with me Mr Croft, who sent it her back to her with the advise never to let it be known that a Daughter, could write such a letter, to a Mother.
Will you be kind enough to return the inclosed to me as soon as convenient, as I wish to show one of them to Mr Loyd, Lady F['s] soliciter, who is expected in Town. I should too wish Lady F: to see some of her late Husbands letters to me, as an affectionate Friend & Father to my Childern who he never intended to leave so unprovided as we have been left, by his sudden Death. |