[714] From Thomas Kellnby in Springfield Gaol [Chelmsford] to the overseer Theydon Mount [1831]
Spingfield Convict
Gaole
April 20th 18[31]
Sir/
I Thearfore address you with thise letter to inform you that I have very ill and thanks be to god I now gitting Better of my illness I shall Estiem it as a perticulare favoure if you wold inform me when Harriett was Confined that I may be inable to gudge how long that I am to be Confined heare plase to give my love to her and I think long till the time comes that will release me from thise as the place is all to gather wheary unhearfull.
I conclude with
My kind love to all
That ask after me
Yours &c
Thomas Kellnby.
NB plase to send Answer By the return of post
and pay the postage of the letter if you plase
Essex Pauper Letters 1731 - 1837: Edited by Thomas SOKOLL. Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press [2001]