John Saffery, Salisbury, to Anne Whitaker, Bratton, Sunday, [5 January 1823]. 

Salisbury  Lord’s day Eveng –

After a letter from Maria Saffery to her sister, John Saffery added the following Postscript:

   There is a Coach from hence to London every afternoon ¼ before 4 oclock which reaches its destination about 6 or 7 the next morning   Inside 1 Guinea outside ½ a Guinea – & another in the Morning.  It used to go at 5 but now at 8 oclock & get to Town in about 11 hours sometimes in 10 hours. Neither breakfast or dinner on the road but gives you a ¼ of an hour to lunch.  It is a very safe & pleasant Coach I always, or always if possible travail by it  Inside 1.12..0  Outside 18/  Plenty of other Coaches from the West to London thro’ Salisbury – I see Maria has given you to expect a line from me & introduced Trowbridge but I can now say nothing about it. Of that matter I suppose we shall speak hereafter

                     J Saffery

Text: Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 6, pp. 391-92 (annotated version); Saffery/Whitaker Papers, acc. 142, I.B.3.(19.), Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford.  Address: Mrs Whitaker | Bratton Farm near | Westbury. Postmark: Salisbury, 5 January 1823.