Letitia Hester to Fanny Bracher, 15 July 1865
| Title: | Letitia Hester to Fanny Bracher, 15 July 1865 |
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| Authors: | Laetitia Hester (née Hall) |
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Letitia Hester to Fanny Bracher, 15 July 1865
Transcription
Blackwood Grange
July 15th 1865
My very dear Fanny
I am so sorry I could not write to you last month but besides having several letters to write I was very unwell having taken a severe cold — you must not expect a photographed likeness of Aunt T’s place from my description but according to my ability I will give the best idea I can of them & their place — your Uncle has 40,000 acres of land, about 4000 sheep, and 40 horses or somewhere near that number, a large vine yard, a garden well stocked with fruit of many kinds, besides fields & barns and different things of that kind — now for the family — Uncle Edwd do you wish me to tell you what he is like? Yes to be sure I do Aunt — well then he stands 6 ft all but ½ an inch dark complexion, nearly bald, and very grey, and very thin, and but I mustn’t tell tales out of school sometimes very cross — Aunt T is a trifle under 5 ft but I think the high heeled boots make up the loss, she weighs considerably more than her husband she looks very well indeed with a strong resemblance to the likenesses we have of your dear mamma — of the younger people there are so many it would take a paper as large as the Home News to describe them on I’m something like your Uncle Henry I scarcely know whether there are nine or nineteen so you must solve that for yourself — they have not been doing anything to their advantage in the way of lessons since they left me Edward talks of getting a governess next year, I think he is putting them off too long
James Turner married Amelia second daughter of a very nice respectable person known has [sic] Mr Frank Armstrong I have not seen her since she was a child then I thought her pretty
I have often thought how much I should prefer living in Sydney to this dull part of the world I have heard it is very much like England with the advantage of a better climate
I don’t think you would like this part of the world after enjoying such a nice refined home as dear Aunt has been able to afford you
Though rather premature as the 19th has not arrived yet I cannot omit wishing you many many happy returns of the day I can scarcely realise the fact that you in a few days will be eighteen, when you write you must tell me how you spent your birthday
Uncle Robert says it would give him great pleasure to be able to see you and much more to hear you sing some of the pretty songs you must have learned by this time – How very kind it is of Aunt to take so much trouble with your education I need not say I hope you are all you ought to be to her — I am glad to hear you like the idea of being a governess — It seems pleasant to follow our inclinations when they are properly directed
I wrote to your Mamma last month — I do wish your dear Papa could enter into some way of business that would insure them a little more comfort than they have had lately – I know their affairs will be better by & bye & there is some comfort in that. I often wish I could see them, Uncle says he will send me & one of the children some day when times are better with us and he can afford to do so with comfort to us all
I don’t know what you’ll say to Aunt Letitia’s budget this time I only hope my dear it will not puzzle you to read it — and now with kind love in which your Uncle & cousins unite — Believe me dear Fanny
Your affectionate Aunt
Letitia Hester
Give my kind love to Aunt & cousins
