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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 3

Mary Dudley to Margaret Winthrop1
Dudley, Mary Winthrop, Margaret

1636-03-28

To my very Deare and Loving mother Mrs. Winthrop give this at Boston I pray
Deare Mother,

My duty remembred to you and my father. I haue ocasion at this time to trouble you by reason that my maid is to goe from me at may day and I am onprovided of one. now I pray you to send me some cloutes and a paire of sheetes and pillow-beeres as soone as you can for I doe not know how quickly I shall need them, and I pray you to send me 2 calfes bages for my Cheese. I am much troubled that I haue not heard either from you nor my father. I should much reioyse to heare from you by a few lines that I ame not forgotten of you. what wages you agree for my husband will be willing to stand to. Thus ceasing further to trouble you I rest Your dutifull Daughter

Mary Dudley Ips: March 28, 1636
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W. 4. 24; 5 Collections , I. 65–66.