My Dear Aunt

For the first time in my life I now have the pleasure of writing a few lines to you. I am changing my situation I think my Mother has told you that I have been living at Cranmer Hall. I lived there 8 years. I am now going rather far from home, about 200 miles. The family name is Wingfield at Fickencote Hall, near Stamford, in the county of Rutland[1]. I am expecting to leave home on the 2^nd of November. I have had a few weeks off for I have not been very strong lately, but I am now quite well. I thank God, for indeed good health is our greatest temporal blessing. I have been staying with Aunt Hannah the last 3 weeks. They have a very nice little place at Dunham. Aunt and uncle are quite well. Aunt is going to have her photo taken as soon as she can, that she may have one to send you. I think it will not be quite yet, for the weather is very unfavourable in winter. Now dear aunt, I think I must conclude. I hope you and Uncle and all my cousins are in good health. Please give my love to all of them. I am your affectionate niece, Elizabeth Burton[2]

Footnotes

1: All attempts at finding Fickencote Hall or any relevant Wingfields in the 1881 census have failed. Elizabeth was a housemaid at Brayfield House, Cold Brayfield, Bucks, in the household of a Henry Kennard in 1881
2: Eldest daughter of Mary Remmington (b.1819) and Joseph Burton