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| The
Broughton Letters 1837-1890 |
| Letter
34: November 1890 - from Mary
& Joseph Burton |
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(date - November 1890?)
My dear Sister & Brother I now right after a long delay
with kind love to all hopeing you will forgive me for not
righting before but as I have heard from you by Miss Bristows
letters to my daughter I have not rote as I am so very busy
sewing I am glad to do all I can for my husbands business
is so very slow now the rail company do chief of the carriers
I have been very ill but thank God I am much better &
begin to feel an old woman seventy seven next month I have
had a bad fall I went to see my Daughter in Norwich and fell
down stears from top to bottom from about thirteen or 14 stears
it was astrait steep stearcase it was a provedenchel fall
he preserved me from breaken my boens I was brused all of
my right side did not break my skin only my leg that done
badly for a time then I went to the doctors with it he give
me some salf and barth it with malersers but I feel pain of
the bone sometimes thank God I did not break any bones my
sister in lay broke her neck falling down stears poor Charlot
thought I was dead as I did not make any noise my poor dear
girl I miss her very much but thank God I farmly believe she
died happy that I cant wish her back your sister Charlots
son is married and have 2 children they live with them so
she is likely to be troubled with a familey in her old days
my familey are all well thank God now I must conclude with
our kind love to all hopeing you are all well I know we shall
not meet hear no more but there is a briter shore there release
from toil and pain there there we all may meet again God grant
it may be so that will be a happy meeting hope to hear from
you again from your loving sister Mary Joseph Buron he join
in love
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