BLACKWELL FAMILY. KITTY BARRY. GREGORY, JANE120 Marda vale
South Lodge
March 12th
Dear Miss Barry, 
how very kind of you 
to write to me with all changes
 there has been since last
 I saw you I have lost
one of the dearest of fathers 
and now my poor
dear mistress how I miss
her She has suffered a great
deal, I nursed her a 
month in October day 
and night I was withpoor Mr. Sweet feels it keenly
we are going on as usual.
I am housekeeper at the present.
I have been most of the winter
as poor Mrs. Sweet was at
Brighton - twelve weeks altogether.
I will tell you more about
her when I see you which
I am looking forward too.
You ask me when I was
going to marry. I have got
permission to keep in service
another six months but I
should like another six months

at the end of it. I really do
think Mr. Lakeman is blessed
with a great deal of patience.
I promised I would have
him last Christmas then
Mrs. Sweet was so ill that
I assured him it was a
thing impossible, don't you
see Miss while I remain unmarried
I can assist my
poor Mother which I don't
suppose I shall be rich enough
after, she is so altered they tell
me, My brother is married
he did not come to fetchhis bride she went to him
I received a nice letter from
[him] her saying how much she 
loved her husband & how
happ[e]y they were etc. and 
concluded by saying if I was
half as good as my brother
no doubt I had many to love
me & my friend Jane is
still in London I am pleased
to say, she has been in her
situation 15 months she talks
of leaving with my duty to 
Dr and Miss Marian
I remain
Yours obediently
Jane Gregory