Anna Beddoes to Davies Giddy, 12 June 1808

Thank you my dear friend for returning the D^rs last letter [1] it contained a lock of little Henry’s hair [2] which I expected to have had in time before I left London to put into a locket for Miss Grant — but I was such a fool as to lose the broach since my return — I left it on the table where I was writing in the evening, & next morning upon looking for it and after every enquiry and search, it is no where to be found. I hope you will continue as well as when I saw you, and I most sincerely hope that M^rs Giddy will take every possible care of her health which is certainly very delicate this I hope for both your sakes, as the consequences of over exertion may be very serious – and I among the numbers of your friends am very anxious to take your little son & heir in my arms [3] — adieu my dear friend with kind wishes to M^rs Giddy believe me

affectionately yours

A M Beddoes

June the 12^th
1808 [4]

Address: Davies Giddy Esq^r M.P. / Holles S^t / London [5]
Postmark: BRISTOL / JUN14 / 8 /12 // FREE / 15JU15 / 1808
Endorsement: 1808 / June the 12^th

Notes

[1] Perhaps Thomas Beddoes’s letter to Giddy of 8 April, which contained an enclosure to be forwarded to a ‘lady’ (Cornish Archives DG 43.89).

[2] Anna’s second son, Charles Henry, had been born in December 1805.

[3] Mary Gilbert was pregnant. A daughter, Mary, was born on 14 February 1809 without a dura mater and lived a vegetative existence until her death on her seventeenth birthday (ODNB).

[4] This dating note has been added in a different hand.

[5] This is the address on the outer wrapping sheet. The letter, which is written on a separate sheet, is also addressed to Davies Giddy Esq^r on the outer page.