[draft] [Ozias Humphry], to [Miss Paine]

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

HU/1/102

Title

[draft] [Ozias Humphry], to [Miss Paine]

Date

[1771]

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

He has wished to write many letters before this one, but her father's conduct has made it difficult to know what to say; after giving him every sign of approval her father marched into town and made a new Will, cutting her off should she ever marry Humphry, he knows this as her father boasted loudly to Mr. Stubbs from his study window; he cannot regard her father as an honest man; he has saved £500 per annum.