Anna Beddoes to Davies Giddy, 10 February 1808
My dear Friend,
A letter I sent lately to Worcester, or rather to Bromich St John’s near Worcester not having reached Miss Seward, as she told us the post office was not always regular, – I once again trouble you to free the enclosed for me, that she [MS torn] have another chance. — It is for poo[MS torn] Emmeline who is in great distress about a sevnt [1] whom Miss S. recommended – & Charlotta is going to leave her so soon that she is in great anxiety to get another — I will write to you tomorrow, & to your dear kind sister, for the present then dear friend farewell,
affectly yours
AMB
Sneyd [2] avails himself of this opportunity to trouble you to drop these in the 2d post [3] –
Miss Elizabeth Seward
Bromwich St Johns
near Worcester [4 ]
Notes
[1] For ‘servant’.
[2] Sneyd Edgeworth, Anna’s stepbrother.
[3] The twopenny post distributed letters for a fixed fee in the London area.
[4] Elizabeth Seward (d. 1831) was the sister of Edmund Seward (1770–95). Seward was the Oxford friend of Robert Southey (1774–1843), the collaborator, friend and patient of her husband, Beddoes. Anna has written Elizabeth Seward’s address under a line at the bottom left hand side of the sheet.