Anna Beddoes to Davies Giddy, 22 February 1808
Are you comfortably settled in your new Lodgings? Is it probable you will be much at your Sisters? [1] Anna [2] sends her love she is learning to write –
Address: Davies Giddy Esqr M.P. / House of Commons / London
Postmark: BRISTOL / 18 / 220 // FREE / 25FE25 / 1808
Endorsement: 1808 / Feby the 22nd
Notes
[1] Giddy needed London lodgings when parliament was in session. His sister Mary Philippa had married, in 1804, Beddoes’s acquaintance John Lewis Guillemard (1764–1844). Their London house was at 27 Gower St.
[2] ‘Little’ Anna, her first child.