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soon we are with you - I moch[?] the Chilo hat and any other
thing you must deduct out - for my two God
daughters as I intend them for a present too
them - By this Ship will arrive a Mr & Mrs
Hosking which I hope will suit as they are
appointed for the Orphan School - the are both
pious people & I hear excellent characters
a Clergyman was also ready to
embark, and their thing on board when it
pleased God to visit his Wife with severe
Illness - and she died last Friday - it is a very
awful as well as afflicting to me as
he has Four Children the Eldest eight and the
youngest means I in consequence of his Mother
Illness - it appears at present to a darksighted
mortals a distressing circumstance but God

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has no doubt some wise aids to answer by it -
I was sorry to hear of Mrs Shelley loss. Reme-
mber me kindly to her - I can enter into all her
feels - it is wound which God alone can heal
these trials are sent us for our good - tho they
are hard to bear - I wrote to Mrs Crook and
sent them with a few trifles by poor Mrs Cooper
before I left Hull, but I am afraid she will 
not get them by this conveyance as his things need
to be taken out of the ship - and as it is a small
parcel I think it is with Mrs Cooper's effects -
remember me affectionately to them - and tell her
I have taken her sister address as I will call
on her before I leave England - I have been often
at Mr Burder's and like them much. Give my
kind love to Mrs Hassall and a kiss to the dear
children. Elizabeth and Ann are both well
at Beverly - Mary is a very fat fine Girl.