CRASKE, Mrs. A very chatty and candid four page letter from [Mr] J. Wright of Leyton, to Mrs Craske, of Norwich. December [1830's]. It speaks of marital discord, pregnancies, and illnesses in Leyton. It opens with apologies for not replying sooner but... “I have been fully imploy’d ... we had... Mrs H’s daughter in the summer & they left in July... & in the beginning of August our Ladies came home & brought the nurse & youngest son to stay the whole time they are to be in Leyton as he is now ill at times & has been for a twelve months past so that we have quite a nursery & to add to that they dine in the brown parlour every day at one o clock & I have the cloth to lay & that dinner to take in & the things to take a way & not long since we had Mr & Mrs H & four or five of their children though not all at one time so be sure their stay was but short if it had I don’t know what we should have done as you know our house is so awkward & every thing so unhandy I am happy to say our Ladies are both tolerable well for people of their time of life which I think is a great happiness to themselves and all those about them... Poor Mrs Bates have left Leyton she could not go on any longer & young Andrews have got the Bake House but wether he will do in it I cannot say it is what he has long wished & tryed hard for... Sally & George are married sumthing better than three months since & she has left us last week they went to see the Grand Temple of Concord the first of August last & were there all night and I suppose matters were madeup then as it was from that time the reconciliation toke place I wish them happy but I fear it for I think too many old things will be brought up at all events she is in the family way & I am sorry to say she did not leave on good terms but neither in disgrace in short my Mrs told her not to come here any more to be sure Sally acted very foolish considering all that has been done for her in that misfortune she meet with the summer before last as she had every attention paid to her & her doctoring was very great & the worst of all she were not very thankfull. Messrs Passingham & Powell have dissolved partnership some time... Mr Powell have opened a shop in the Wheelers Yard... There then follows more new of mutual friends, illnesses in Leyton... which has made quite a carnage with the children & many grown up people have died. Mr Wood’s Betty has lost her little one...