1796 (Spring) (2) (Anne)

Anne Andrews, Isleworth, to Maria Andrews, Salisbury, Wednesday, [c spring 1796].


My dear Love

I expected to have been with you as yesterday or today but that not being the case I send this to relieve your anxiety hope you will receive it early tomorrow – If nothing in Providence prevent I shall be with you some day this week

Adieu my beloved & rest assured of the sincere affection of

Your friend & Sister

Anne Andrews


Wednesday Aftn




Text: Reeves Collection, Box 14.2.(j.), Bodleian Library, Oxford. Address: Miss Andrews | arrived Saturday morng; for a fully annotated text of this letter, see Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 6, p. 128.