Celia Doddridge, Northampton, to Mercy Doddridge, Sr., at the home of James and Mary Fenner Waugh, London, 30 December 1751. 

My Dear Mamma

             I am extreamly glad to hear you are well & Shall rejoice when you come home for indeed I long to see you,

  I am at a loss what to say to my, Dear Mama but give me leave to wish you a good journey home my sisters are so busy a writing that thay cant assist me

  I am very glad to hear Miss Ekins is well and that her Company is so agreeable to you I beg my best complements to her & to good Mr Neal.

  Accept Dear Mamma this short Epistle tis my own performance therefore I hope you will excuse if all that I can say more is that I think my self very happy in so good a Mamma and am

Your very Dutiful Daughter

Celia Doddridge

PS Brothers Duty, Mr Clayton desires his best compliments

Address: To | Mrs Doddridge | at Mr Waughs | at ye Turk’s Head | in Lombard Sheet | London

Postmark: illegible

Note on address page: dear Polly & Ceialy | Dec ye 30 1751 [in Mercy Doddridge's hand]

Text: Crew MS 50, fol. 40, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.  Above letter sent with a letter of Mary Doddridge to her mother on the same day.