SerjeantLetters-05_03
Collection: Serjeant Family Letters, 1769-1840
Item: Letter to Elizabeth Browne Rogers Roche from Winwood Serjeant (15 June 1774)
Transcription:
lived so long in the family! I cannot help
thinking that it was hard, cruel, not to say
criminal: Your sister was greatly affected at
it indeed: & must own, had I known anything
of an intention would have done any
thing for the poor fellow rather than he
should have been sent off the Countrey: sure
I am your compassionate disposition had
no hand in it: God rest his Soul. -- I was
vastly disappointed at not meeting with Bass
at home & much more so when I heared
that you were at Newbury a few hours before
my arrival: had I been any ways certain of
your return so soon, should have stayed the
wednesday over; for I wanted greatly to see you;
have so much to say to you: & rejoice that you
give us some encouragement of seeing you
this summer at Cambridge: I fear it will not
be
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