Eliza Gould at Totness, Devonshire, to Benjamin Flower at Cambridge, Sunday, 27 October 1799.

                                                                 Totness Octr 27th 1799

My dear Love 

   I am this moment arrived at Totness, left Exeter this morning at half past six & Tiverton last night at the same hour—I must hire a chaise to take me from hence to Dodbrook twelve miles—can procure no other conveyance now   I shall in a few hours find myself with my parents   would my Ben were by to witness an interview which I know would be gratifying to his feelings & I shall write you in a day or two a long letter.   I have much to inform you of—much to say on many subjects.

   I do not feel myself quite well to day  my journey from Exeter has been very fatiguing—we carried no ballast ...[paper torn] the road is the roughest I ever have travelled & what with the trembling of my hand & the badness of my writing apar­atus  I shall scarcely render myself intelligible—adieu my best & dearest friend.  I am & ever shall be your faithful—your affectionate

                                                         Eliza Gould

My kind love to Miss Jennings

Text: Timothy Whelan, ed., Politics, Religion, and Romance: The Letters of Benjamin Flower and Eliza Gould, 1794-1808 (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 2008), 168.