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My dear Mrs. Dickenson
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      I found your last letter on My
return from Newark where I had been
three weeks at Mrs. Godfrey's -- I should have
stayed there much longer but was against
my inclination Obliged to return to Upping Ham
to Sign Some Deeds relative to the Estate which I fancy
is by this time paid for & the money placed in the
funds -- I cannot sufficiently thank you for the
trouble you are so kind as to take in offering to
find a Situation for us at Northampton -- Till Mr-
Jackson's return from London I cannot exactly say what our
annual income will be but I think I may venture
to say that we can afford to give £50 a year
each for board and lodging -- & certainly expect two
rooms entirely to our-Selves, I could wish three but
two we cannot do without -- I think I should wish
to go in about February & soon after that I hope & trust
Mary will join me then, -- I have not been returned
from Newark quite a fortnight -- and Since then I
have been staying till this evening at the Reverend Mr.
Jones's's at Grantham -- & As I have several other visits

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to make before I leave this part of the Country I
think I can employ my time till february perhaps the
latter end -- I wish it may be possible to make a
bargain with whom we may board with to deduct
something whenever we are absent longer than a
certain time, as I know I shall be a good deal
with Mrs. Tren in London -- & Mary will I dare
say be not less frequently from home -- and if the deduction
is only sufficient to defray our travelling
expenses (though I should hope it will be considerably more)
it would be worth speaking for -- You must know
so well the kind of family that would Suit us that
I need not say a word on the Subject --
      While I was at Newark I met with
great encouragement to Settle there -- which I should
certainly have attempted (I mean to get a Situation)
had I not been agreeably Surprised at My return
to Uppingham to find that You remembered Your kind
Promise of introducing us to some of Your friends
at Northampton -- & also endeavouring to find a
Situation for us -- I then gave up all thoughts
of Newark -- for As I had a decided preference
for Northampton, I should have fixed at the former
place merely from Necessity -- As I mean to
fill up the remainder of this Sheet of paper to
Louisa -- I will Conclude with many thanks  ------ 
                             Your Obliged & affectionate
                                                         Frances Jackson

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My dear Louisa
      I have really nothing to say that
can at all entertain you but as your favour came
at last I cannot resist acknowledging it -- I have been
so much from home that I have not had an opportunity
of copying any patterns for you Yet, but you May depend
upon it I will buy some send you a folio Sheet
with as many as you can desire You don't say particularly
what you want them for but I will send a
variety for a variety of uses -- As I was not quite so
much taken with Dear Ingles as he pretended to be with
me you will I hope excuse My sending him any particular
kind Message -- and only hope you did not by my
absence from Leighton, experience a double portion of his
polite attentions -- Pray tell me when you write as I think
you said he was coming, whether he made any enquiry
after the lady of the order of the Poppy -- or whether  ------ 
was entirely forgotten -- . While I was at Newark I went to
one Public assembly and one private ball -- at both I met
the beautiful but apparently far more pleasing
Mrs. Campbell -- Mr. Jon Hunter's Daughter. I mention this because
I think your Mama knows her -- I think I never Saw
a woman more admired than she was -- & I thought her
an uncommon pretty dame -- She came with a Mrs. Roger
Pocklington -- her husbands Sister -- the private ball
was very pleasant, the assembly I did not very much like
but I think lately I have been in great luck for dancing
as I was at an assembly here only two evenings before I went
to Newark & I believe we are to have another on friday in
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lament than rejoice -- but I shall probably go if any family
is going that I can accompany -- during the time I was
at Newark I had another invitation to a ball at Blatherwick
hall -- a Mr. O'brien's -- which I of course could not attend
I stopped at Oakham as I came through today to see my little New
Cousin George Ashby Barnard -- he is a very fine boy -- Mary Anne
is very well and is a very pretty and interesting little I wish
you could see her -- the youngest child, grown plain -- Mr. Warren

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is in town -- Mrs. Torkey still here but is likely to go as soon
as Mr. Warren returns, when his agreeable Sister for a short time only
I am happy to say takes her place -- he intends while she is here
to look out for some clergyman's widow or well educated woman to
Superintend his children and family -- the best plan I think he
can pursue as the children are too young to go to School --

Perhaps you can tell me       whether there is any good
School at Northampton as Mr-       Warren seems very anxious if
we fix there to place his       children when they are
old enough there -- believe me dear Louisa Yours affectionately
Frances Jackson
I was at Newark three or four days with Mr. & Mrs. Kinderley who
passed a week at Mr. Godfreys in their way to London. Mr. Kinderley had been
confined near three weeks at Wooburn by a dangerous illness in which he was attended by Dr. Kerr --
best love to Mr. Dickenson & Mrs. M. My hand is quite cramped
with writing so small a hand I hope my Dear Louisa you
will be able to read, it -- Pray let me hear from you soon & let me
                             know what success Mrs. Dickenson has had in her application to Northampton
                             love to the Grants