I’ve found a letter dated 1912

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I have recently bought an old property to renovate in my spare time.

It’s a little terraced house, dating back to 1800ish

Upon purchase I was given a box of deeds, some crumbly, some burnt, and others in fairly good condition.

At the bottom of the box was this letter.

I can’t really read it very well, and I’m not even sure it relates to the property!

Would anyone care to help me translate?

Wow!
Very hard to read though. Something about celery curry maybe :o

OK I can read the last page

I can’t make it out but I would get those professionally framed and put them above the fireplace.

Oh something about returning for their little ones :(

I was called away..... anyone can see....the luck of my mother

First page ‘my mother I was taken ill myself with rheumatic fever but thankful to say I am mending now’

Lois
I was called away 3 weeks ago to see the last of my mother ....I was taken ill myself but am thankful to say I am mending

Second page ‘I Hope next week to be able to return to my little ones and home’

I was taken ill.......but thankfully.....will......hope

I hope next week to be able to return to my little ones and home

something about being called away, being taken away, thankful for something

He was called away because his mother was ill and was then taken ill himself. He talks about letters being forwarded or meant to have been forwarded but hasn't heard anything. He apologises for troubling the recipient with this.

Poor soul had rhumatic fever while visiting his mother, who was also ill. He's been trying to organise for his rent to be paid, I think.

taken ill not away

First page says something about mother ... then (? the writer) taking ill , thankfully recovering ... next page says something about returning home to their little ones ... think I can see something about a little girl too .

Ends with ‘I beg to apologise’ on the second page :

‘ I sent letter by post authorising xxx to send rent to you when it was due and heard nothing’

This is what I can make out:

... to see the last of my mother and was taken ill myself with rheumatic fever but thankful to say i am...

i hope next week to be able to return to my little ones and... it was quick... when my little girl answered to your letter... recent letter by post to Mr ? authorising them to forward rent when due at ... to you and I heard nothing from them..

I beg to apologise for troubling you with this but I thought it my duty.

Yours,

M Fleming

I think the first page says 'I was called away 3 weeks ago to see my.... Mother but was taken ill myself'

Long name
Lodge
Date March 22 12
Name JF .... Esq (esquire)
Luis,
I was called away 3 weeks ago gone
To see the last of my mother
& was taken ill myself with Rhumatic Fever
But thankful to say I am mending ...

P1

I was called away weeks ago/gone to see the last(?) of my mother ... And was taken ill myself with Rheumatics (?) but thankfull to say I am mending now.

I was called away 3 weeks ago to see the ... of my mothers and was taken ill myself with rheumatic fever but thankfully to say I am mending.

I hope next week to be able to return to my little ones and home. Its very quiet ..... when my little girls ....

... to your letter I sent letter by post to Mr ..... authorising them to forward rent when due and ... to you & I ... nothing from them remains. I beg to apologise for troubling you with this but I thought it my duty, yours obediently, M Hemming.

I think it says:
Glenncombe lodge?
To JF Winnicott esquire
Lois ?
I was called 3weeks ago to see the last of my mother. I was taken ill myself with rheumatic illness but thankful to say I am ?getting better.
I hope next week to be able to return to my little ones and home. It was quite correct what my little girl answered to your little ?girls letter by post to mister ? Authorising them to forward rent when due at may to you and I heard nothing from them? I beg to apologise for troubling you with this but I thought it my duty.
Yours obediently
M ?Henning

J F Winnicott Esq
Dear Sir
I was called away 3 weeks ago to see the last of my mother. I was taken ill myself with rheumatic fever but thankful to say I am mending now.

I hope next week to be able to return to my little ones & home it was quite correct when my little girl answered to your letter. I sent letter by post to Mr Heconcum? authorising them to forward rent when due at ... to you & I heard nothing from them since. I beg to apologise for troubling you with this but I thought it my duty.

Yours gratefully
Mr Hemming

J. F.Winnacot Esq.
Sir,
I was called away 3 weeks ago to see the last of my mother and was taken ill myself with rheumatic fever but thankful to say I am mending now.
I hope next week to be xxx to return to my little ones and home.
It was xxxxxxx correct when my little girls answered to your letter
I sent letter by post to Mr xxxx authorising them to forward rent when due 7th(?) May and I heard nothing from them since.
I beg to apologise for troubling you but thought it my duty
Yours obediently

PAGE ONE

Glennethcomb
Lodge
Thurchlet Home
Nr The ingsbridge.
March 22/12
J. F. Winniscott Esq.

Sir,
I was called away
3 weeks gone to see
the last of my mother.
I was taken ill myself
with rheumatic fever
but thankfull to say
I am mending now.

PAGE TWO
I hope next week to be
able to return to my
little ones & home
it was quite correct
when my little girl
?answered? to your letter
I sent letter by post to
Mr Flu authorising
them to forward rent
when due at ?? may
to you & I heard nothing
from them since.
I beg to apologise.

PAGE THREE
for troubling you
with this but I thought
it my duty.

yours obediently
M Hemming.