Volume 64: Emily Macarthur [Mrs. James Macarthur] correspondence and other papers, 1838-1879: No. 119
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[Page 119]
Dearest Emily
This letter will be a bit of patchwork before it is finished but such as it is I hope it will reach you before you sail. What an immense time it will be before you receive another letter from any of us - I suppose you will arrive in the Summer in Australia and escape a Winter which seems to have begun very early - How very fortunate it is that this waited for a week as last Friday was the Wynnstay bowmeeting - I was very successful and won the gold medal & £15 (the prize for the best shooting all through the year - Sir Watkin gave two prizes one for the Gentlemen and the other for the Ladies - Only unmarried people could win either and Mr Brooke Cunliffe won the Gentlemans prize by declaring himself an unmarried man! I have bought a very pretty pair of Amethyst & peach Combs with the greater part of my money and long for next year to see how I shall shoot - You will think me very greedy for waiting next year to come before this
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one is over - You must have seen almost all that there is to be seen in England and Scotland by this time. I shall be very glad when your time of transportation is over & you come back to England perhaps you will come & see us in our new little abode where I suppose we shall have been safely housed for some time by that time -
Goodbye my dearest Emily & with much love & many kisses to yourself & best wishes for both your's & Mr Macarthur's happiness believe me
Your very affecte niece
Annie Egerton
Gresford Lodge
Saturday