Letter from Rachel Pease, Penrith, Cumberland, describing her and Edward Pease’s journey to Penrith via Greta Bridge Yorkshire; describing the ‘romantic views the windings of the river, and the shelving rocks, with the Abbey Bridge but the dull evening prevented our seeing them to the greatest advantage’; describing her sharing Cousin Richardsons’ carriage to Brough Cumberland, because of the rain; describing how ‘the cornfields promise an abundant harvest; more is got in than with us, mostly ready to reap, and many fields we thought in danger of suffering for want of the reapers’; recounting visits to the John Ritsons, both of whom are in a poor state of health; and to H. Walker ‘who kindly enquired after her young friend Joseph’, 13 September 1817 Endorsed: Letter from Edward Pease, Cockermouth Cumberland, describing how ‘the weather has been very fine since we passed the heigh of Stanemore’ and also commenting on the ‘luxuriant crops’; describing the ‘gathering of Friends’, including ‘Uncle & Aunt Whitwell & S. Hustler, Junior, Jonathan Flounders & his Bride, several Waterhouses, W. Crewdun, Jno. Fell his wife & daur. Of London etc. etc’; sending his and Rachel’s love to all the children and exhorting them to ‘send your grandmother some peas’ – From: Quaker families of Darlington,Pease family, John Pease (1797 – 1868)