Frettenham Augst 1^st, 1847

Dear Daughter and Son in Law and Grandchildren

this com with our kind love to all and I hope to find you all in good helth as it lave all of us at present Thanks be to God for it it is all the blessing we have our trade is verry slow; and every persen complaining for want of trade & labor, our workhouses are fild with abel boddyed men and rates & expenses are so much we due not now how to live; rail roads to all parts of our contry from Yarmouth to Norwich and London that our markets are so high that we can scarce get any meats beef 8 1/2 & 9 pr st & Mutton the same pork 7 1/2 & 8 per st potatoes has bin 16 shillings to 18 pr sack an vedigables of all sorts very scarce and sent to London by the train they go from Norwich to London in 4 hours we have such desease among the meat stock as we never witnesed before theire mouths sore & tongs & flea all over & feet sore they can scarse walk the claws com of & wors than that the Lites get deceased and grow to the side & kill them very soon; Roulin the due lup & blisterin but the butcher is the best docktor the los is not to much if taken in time Thay are packt up & sent to London grate numbers; I hope you have no such disease in Amarraca if you have a sore mouth give 1 h of salts & 1 oz of grated ginger & drop the mouth with salt every day thay begin slaver in the mouth, but if it bee the lights thay will lay about & rent the Heaven the ground & eat very little at time will well & feed a little if you have any of the disease butcher directly I can see nothing better

Dear Daughter we received your kind letter on the 20 of March 1847 with the greates of pleashure and hope to have better news this letter. Mrs Dorven is dead & buried last Michelmas time the fammily is all well at present & send thair love to you all Brother William & wife & child is well & send thar love to you all Mary and husband & children all well 4 in number & expect to be confined about the end of this month Thay send thar love to you all thay ware at Mine the 25^th of July last Christain & fammily are all well & send the love to you all 5 in number & girls, Susan & boy Henry send thar love to you all & Hannah send her love to all She is liven at Thorpe in her same plase; Charles is well & send his love to you all Charlot is well and send her love to you all Uncle Richard is well the last time I hard from him he has buried his wife Bette than a year; Cosin Richard is married & have a child Uncle Henry & wife & children well & send the love to you all cosin Henry is a soldier in the 77 regiment of Foot & is North in Ireland & expect to embark for Amaraca very soon Uncle Christmas is well & send his love to you all he is in the Oulton House for the old people he is so infirmed & not abel to work Evan Marsham got him in that house before his age he has bin 6 years in that place it is a good place for him he can com to see me wen he like to ask leave he steal out some times & git confined a day for it he git to Oulten som new time if he has any monny; our flower is 2-10 to 3 shillings pr st we have very fine crops of corn of every sort & expect to begin Harvest the latter end of this wheek or the biginen of the next they complain of brand in the wheat thare is som every year our hay in general lite & very fickel time for maken up land hay but remarkable time for pasture hay we expect fickel time for wheat harvest but let us hop to get it in in good order it is not like to bee chape at present The potato crop look well at present thare is a little disease as last year but we hop it will not be so seris as last year election at Norwich last wheek & expect one for the contry soon Mrs. Fritter best respects to you & glad to hear from you & Brother John Broughton & fammily all well and send the love to you thare is a grate supply at Norwich Market with horses & bullocks & milch cows from Holland the cows are good milkers & lead team by the horses, Susan Remmington is well & send her love to you she is liven in servis clos by Hannah at Thorp Frettenham Common inclosed last year 1846 the laborors lost not 1 half day for the winter was so favourable as I never new before thay began ditchen on the 1 of January; it is lotted 1/2 acres to cottages Foulger has the Corthill & up to the Norwich Road I have about 3 acres by the marshole for feedin land pasture the crops look well this year en general the rent is 13-6 a year Mrs. Bell is dead & buried Uncle James Catton & family is well we shall be glad to hare from you as soon as possible as our time grow short in this world as we loos all our old frinds Mrs. Bons is dead in Amaraca & Sister Lily Smith is liven & the old hous & land is sold & gravel pit is Broutin Cultuvatons Excuse my not written before I hopt to send you a better acct nearer harvest Joseph Danty is liven & is in the work house no more at present from your affectionate Father & Mother

Wm & Christain Remmington