Philip Whitaker, Bratton, to John Saffery, Salisbury, [c. November 1809].

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

Dear Bror,

   I have sent 24 Skins – 4 Sacks Potatoes one of which are kidneys, 1½ thro Cheese 8 in number – a basket & Umbrella for you – 3 Cheeses for Mrs Attwater, and a little hamper for Alfred to be forwarded by Anderson, also a hamper and bottles for Mr Wyche which you will be pleased to let them know is at yr house – Brother’s Sack of lamb Wool which he has weighed please to return the Sacks (except Mrs Attwater’s) [you] will have to take at your house a < > of candles from Mr Marsh’s the two bibles & a little parcel from Targetts – my love to Maria and the children – Mr Claypole is to be at H Norton 2 more Sabbaths  I had a letter from him in his usual style of ambiguity, I don’t know any thing of his future plans but should think if the negociation was broken off he would demand his passport.

         I am yrs affectionately

                     P Whitaker

Text: Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 6, pp. 290-91 (annotated version); Saffery/Whitaker Papers, acc. 142, I.A.10, Angus Library. Address: Revd J. Saffery | Castle Street | Salisbury. This letter can be dated by the impending resignation of Thomas Claypole.