Anna Beddoes to Davies Giddy, 17 April 1808
Sunday morning — [1]
You make no wrong judgement my dear friend I have not the slightest feeling of unkindness towards you, you have shewn me the greatest possible affection, in having made known to me the exact state of your mind, & acquainted me with circumstances which you might easily have concealed from me —
I was told by a lady, who heard it from somebody in this neighbourhood that you were going to be married to a lady with £100,000 I said you were going to marry a lady of fortune but I did not know it was so large, so it is known here it seems! – tell me the day fixed upon [2] — and let me know this soon —
I cannot write much to you certainly as you have rightly said, not can you in [MS torn] heart blame my silence — – —
When convenient direct this letter to Rd Edgeworth [3] — it contains the picture of the late Mrs Edgeworth [4] – adieu —
Endorsement: 1808 / April the 17th
Notes
[1] In 1808, Easter Sunday fell on 17 April.
[2] Giddy wed Mary Gilbert the next day, 18 April, at her home village of Northiam, Sussex.
[3] Anna’s father Richard Lovell Edgeworth.
[4] There were, by 1808, three late Mrs Edgeworths – Anna’s mother Anna Maria, née Elers (1743–73), Honora, née Sneyd, and Honora’s sister Elizabeth, née Sneyd (1753–97). It is not clear which one of these wives was depicted.