Map Uley

My Dear Cousin,

We have just received your parcel and letter quite safely I am
sure we are very much obliged to you for your kindness Mother
wishes me to thank you very much indeed for the tea you sent
her and I am very pleased indeed with the little frock for
Emmie it will do beautifully in the spring for her I am glad to
tell you she is getting on nicely now and getting quite fat you
would not think she was the same child she can say almost
anything I am glad to say Father and Mother are both pretty
well also George we shall be very pleased to see you at any
time you can make it convenient to come only be sure and let
us know when you are coming we hope you and your husband
and all your family are quite well we have had a pretty fair
weather this month but it is beginning to look and feel wintry
now and now dear cousin I dont think I have any more news to
tell you so again thanking you very much for your kind presents
I will conclude with my kind love to yourself and all your family
and not forgetting Bessie hoping you will all have a merry
Xmas and a prosperous New Year when it comes.

Goodbye from your loving cousin B. Trull x

From Emmie to Bessie xxxxx

This tells me that Caroline came from Gloucestershire,
and that she was related to the Shelton family of Uley -
it had survived over a hundred years in the hands of the
Polding family and was, I like to think, waiting for me

Reproduced here as written