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for your own health, and altho' I suppose
it would hardly be safe to have any
direct communication from you at
present, yet [he?] should endeavour through
some channel to xxxxx
yours and Harriet's account your
Mama I fear will be in great
alarm and apprihension, for without
being under her [indecipherable] circumstances
I cannot help looking on our own little
[indecipherable] without trembling
anxiously and with [indecipherable] fervent
prayers that each and all may [indecipherable]
[indecipherable], "for they know not the day
nor the hour when the Son of Man
commeth". The too Throsbys at Kings
Schools kept their room all day yesterday
but Charles says he think's the sudden
death of their Brother was a greater

shock to them. Charles had settled to
have spent last Sunday with you, we
all unite in kind love to your Mama
and Harriet and with our best wishes
and prayers, Believe me my dear
James, Your affectionate Aunt
Mary [Betts?]

Wondesley 6th 19th 1808