John Saffery, Salisbury, to Anne Whitaker, Bratton, [Wednesday], 23 July 1817.

Salisbury  July 23d 1817

Attached to the letter below is a letter by Maria Saffery to Anne Whitaker, dated the same as above.

  I had a most dismal letter from Penny on Sab. day – Literally they can get no employ, have no money & are in a Starvation & most desperate distress – I sent them £10 which I scraped together yesterday including £1 for you.  If you do not think it right to pay it I must although I have been obliged to do more very affectionately your’s

                     J Saffery

Text: Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 6, p. 360 (annotated version); Saffery/Whitaker Papers, acc. 142, I.B.3.(6.), Angus Library. Address: To | Mrs P. Whitaker. No postmark.