Mary Doddridge (cousin), Northampton, to Mrs. Mercy Doddridge, Sr., Tewkesbury, 6 May 1773.  

She has sent some more personal items to Mercy in Tewkesbury from the home in Northampton.  Is concerned about news of Mercy's poor state of health and that of Mary Humphreys, which she has learned from her friend, a Miss Knott. Mentions the death of a 14-year old.

Text: Crew MS 50, fol. 39, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.