Mary Shewell Hunt letter to Isaac Hunt, March 21, 1804

              March 21st – 1804 -  

Stephen's residence Warwick Court, Holborn No. 8. 
Mary Hunt 
Robert and John, 7 London Street Fitzroy square.  

April 6th -  

My dear Son 'tis a very long time since you left us, and your letter reliev’d my mind, and afforded us all, the satisfaction we long desired of knowing you were able to obtain for yourself the necessary supports of life, but my dear Isaac you do not tell us why you have chosen that cold climate for your residence, or what is your employment there. /---/ We know [you] have a mind ca¬pable of undertaking many things that would be of service to yourself and the community where you reside, and I hope to hear that you have exerted yourself and obtained a situation in life agreeable to your wishes and our hopes, God bless you, and give you strength of mind, and body to fulfill the duties of your situation; we have all of us difficulties to encounter in this world, I as a poor Clergymans wife have to struggle with many, you and my other Children entering the world with¬out money, and the Friends we have not obtaining for us what we expected, have difficulties to struggle with, known only to God and our own hearts, yet if we act uprightly there is a