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UCB/04283 Corke sep.ber 28 yr 1770
I was sorry it was not in my pow’r soon’r, to tell you how much I am oblig’d to you for, not standing on ceremony with me, and being so good as to write to me so often of leat, tho’ I cou’d not answer your kind favors as punctualy as I wish’d to doe, I believe youlle attribute my silence to the real cause which is want of time: I can’t express the joy I had to hear of Miss Kavanagh, resolution and that she had join’d you, it was what you ambition’d this long time past, if wance we were fix’d the object in view is so great, that I dare say many wou’d follow your and her example, I had little reason when first I thought of this foundation to expect the success it has already had met, I must say every disappointment we have had, the Almighty has being plais’d to make it turn out, to our advantage; tho my impatience very often made not submit to his divine will as I ought, I believe we are ob ligat’d to your worthy friend for this young lady determine to come here, we are happy I think to have wan of they sisters I am not surprize, at what you mention to me in regard
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of Mr kavanagh, for he and his lady by some conjectures of there own was sure Miss Nano, intend’d coming here, as for my part I could not say any thing that gave the lest notion that she was inclin’d, nor did I flatter my self by what the clergyman, then told me of her, that she wou’d and I must doe her brother and sister justice they did not seem a tall angry with her for it, I dare say she will be still of great servise to ous by her good pray’rs: I can’t avoid telling you how eager Mr Doran thin[ks] is for your coming over soon, as he forsees they will every day be [?] starting some new difficulties, on account of the French lady, which is already the case, and was made now objection when Mrs B: got leave to come, and he wrote to his nephew the many reasons by which it makes it so necessary, to have this establishment begane as soon as posseable; as he and I am sure by the character you give of this lady that she is not wan of these moderen religious persons who’ think every inconveniency such a cross that there is now bear[ing] it, she that makes such a sacrifice for the good of souls, will h[ave] fortitude to make light I hope of not having every thing settel’d as comfortably as it ought to be, wan cou’d not imagi[ne] a house so leatly built, that the walls cou’d be so dry as they ar[e] nor can wan judge of them tell they are plaster’d, and when the plaster drys immediately its owing to the walls being so. Had I not seen it had this effect on it, I cou’d not have believe it, youlle find it will be very habitable this winter, which I did not think it wou’d be, and when you are settel’d there, I sha[ll] be to blame if I dont get every necessary, that is thought want… as there is nothing in my power, I shant indever to doe and hope youlle be so good to excuse in the beginning all: and consider we are in a country we cant doe as we please, by degrees with assistance of god we may doe a great dall: as I think by what your as me [?]