Recd the inclosd from Mr. Lowrey Directed in a Blank Paper to me Directed, tooke the first opertunity to send it, and withall to Acquaint you that your Poor Sister Baker Dyde on Sunday the 29th of August Last after a Long and tedious Illness. your Sister Heley Desires her kindest Love Affections Blessing and Servis to you and all yours, and is much Concernd to know if you Ever Recd her Litle Presents to her Dear Neice Penelope, she sent by Mr. Cahill, who Promist to take great Care to Deliver them with his owne hands; I had the Pleasure of a Letter from Dear Peter from Charlestowne, Carolina, the 15th of May last. which I Designe to Answer very soone. it Reioices me Extreamly to hear by the Countess of Deloraine that Came from thence that he is Extreamly Likd, and behaves himself mighty well, and teaches her sister to play on the spinett and has a very good Charicter which is a great Comfort to me to hear.

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I Cannot give you any Account by what Ship or Captain this Comes to you, not being able to go so farr as the new England Coffee house 1 to putt my letter in my self; but am forst to send it to a friend to put it in for me, who lives Just by and hope it will Come safe to you, and shall be Extream Glad to hear from you. this with my Blessing to you, my Daughter Pelham, William, Charles I should have said first, Tho: and my Little Dear Penelope, and Chiefly to your Self, who am in Continuall Prayers to god to send his Blessing on [you] and all yours from a sincear Most Affectionate and Ever Indulgent father

LONDON, October 12th, 1742.

PETER PELHAM.

1 This was in Threadneedle Street, behind the Royal Exchange, and facing the favorite Coffee House known as "Grigsby's.”

Peter Pelham, Sr. to Peter Pelham, Jr.

MY DEAR SON,

I take this opertunity of a Gentleman that is Designd for Boston, who is to Call in me this morning. theirfore am very scanty of time, and to acquaint you that I have not heard from you since october the 12 Dated November 30th 1741. but as my grandson has writ severall to me I Impute the miscarridge by the Spaniards Intersepting them, which I hope is the Case with you, which makes me very Ready to Judge it not want of Duty or Love and affections, which you so much Exprest in your Last to me. your Poor sister Baker Died Last August on the 29th after a very Tedious indisposition. your sister Helena thank god is very well. I hope in the Lord this will find you all the same. my kind Rispects to my Daughter Pelham. with my hearty Blessing to her to you and to all my Dear Grand Children I am in great hast. Expect the Gentleman and my Ladys Call, and am my Dear son your Ever Most Affectionate father P: PELHAM.

LONDON, July 20th, 1743.

[Endorsed] Rec'd this Letter Octo'r the 14, 1743, per Mr. Wakefield 1

Helena Pelham to Peter Pelham, Jr.2

MY DEAR BROTHER,

Oct. 3, 1748.

I begin writing to you without knowing whether it will ever come to your hands or not, but I am determined to write, and hope you will get some of my letters if not all. This is the third

1 Pelham married for his third wife, Mary Copley, widow of Richard Copley and daughter of John Singleton, of Quinville Abbey, County Clare. The marriage took place in Boston, in 1748. 2 From Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, IX. 202.

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time I have wrote since February; in my last I told you that my father was very well, and so he is now, thank God Almighty for it. I am in the country, but hear frequently from my dear father. We have been out of town ever since the second of May. I long to have a letter from you to know how you and all your family does. In your last you were so good as to tell my father how your sons was disposed of. I hope Peter is happily married. As Charles is brought up a merchant I flatter myself that some time or an other he will come to England. O my dear soul how glad I shall be to see him; if please God I should be alive then. I shall here send you a direction how to write to me, which I did in my two last letters, but till I hear from you I am not sure you got them. I hope you will never fail to write when any ships come to London, for it is the greatest pleasure in the world to my dear father and me to hear of your welfare. I am sure my letters must be very stupid to my dear brother, as I have nothing entertaining to tell you, for as you know none of my acquaintance, nor I any of yours, must make my letters very stupid; for after I have inquired how you, your wife, and the dear children are, and tell you my father and self are well, I have nothing more to say. As for news I can never write of that have in a better manner than what I can express it. So will conclude with my best wishes and love to your self and to your wife, and to all your family and hope you will believe me to be, Your ever loving sister

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HELENA PELHAM.

I send this to town to my father & get him to send it to the New England Coffee house.

Direct for me at the Honble Mrs. Conways in Green St, near Grosvenor Square.

To Mr Peter Pelham, Sr at Boston in New England.