Mary Doddridge (cousin), Northampton, to her cousins (Mercy and her daughters still living at home, Mercy and Celia), [Tewkesbury], 18 August 1775.
She hopes to meet with Mercy once again and see her in her new habitation at Tewkesbury, which is a house of her own close to the sisters (her daughters) and the Congregational meeting house. She mentions the death of Dr. Caleb Ashworth, Principal of the Daventry Academy and former student of Doddridge at Northampton.
Text: Crew MS 50, fol. 39, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.