Address: Middleton Tyas, [North Riding of Yorkshire]. To an unknown female recipient ('Madam'). Has heard from mrs Watson of Danby Wiske, [North Riding of Yorkshire], that a servant (a niece of Mrs Watson) was leaving the recipient's service at Martinmas (11 November); asks her 'to answer the queries on the [o]ther side ... and were Master and Mistresses to [be] upon honor, in their character of servants, there woud [so] on be an end of all complaints of bad ones'.
Autograph, with signature. Some traces of the questions from the dorse are visible in reverse on the face of the letter.
Dorothea Watson letter
This material is held atSenate House Library Archives, University of London
- Reference
- GB 96 AL386
- Dates of Creation
- 24th Sep 1688
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 9" x 7". Frayed at the left-hand side, with the loss of the margin and the first letter of most lines. 1 sheet
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