Letter 18: 3 October 1805

Physical form: One leaf, 18.2 x 22.7 cm; text on recto only
Cover: None
PM: none
WM: 1804 [no manufacturer’s name]
SM: Misc MS 4359

My dear Miss Rickards,

The Summer is gone the Autumn is wearing fast away, will you not come & see me while going abroad is yet pleasant? If agreeable to M^rs Rickards & yourself & Miss Harrop we shall be happy to see you all on Tuesday next Oct the 8^th. It will be full moon if you return, but I have a bed at M^rs Rickards service, & hope she will not confine her visit to one day & at any rate I hope you will not. Let me know in your answer if M^r & M^rs Ward

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are at home The maid waits for the letter so Adieu

Yours aff^ly

AL Barbauld

S. Newington
Oct 3^d

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Notes

1. Hampstead friends of the Barbaulds. They took tea with the Barbaulds on 22 June 1802 (RB, Diary). [back]

2. Year established by reference to a perpetual calendar. October 8 (see below) was a Tuesday in 1805. [back]

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