Maria Grace Saffery, Salisbury, to Anne Andrews Whitaker, [Thursday], 19 December 1799.

... ye mother & babe are charmingly well, & down stairs – but adieu my Husband is return’d & will endeavor to get a few lines from him to make amends for mine written in great confusion  numerous interruptions once more yrs adieu & believe me

                                 yours most faithfully

                                             Maria Grace Saffery

Sarum

Exeter Street Dec.r 19th 1799

Affixed to the short (most likely incomplete) letter above by Maria Saffery is a letter by John  Saffery to Anne Whitaker of the same date.

Text: Timothy Whelan, gen. ed.,  Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 6, p. 172 (annotated version); Saffery/Whitaker Papers, acc. 180, A.1.(b.), Angus Library. Address: Mrs Whitaker | Bratton Farm | Favor’d by | Mr Williams. No postmark. Opening portion of letter is missing.