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Letter from Isabella Tyler to Matthew Flinders (FLI01) Page 2


house, the smallest you perhaps ever saw, it is however
very comfortable, & , but that happineƒs is not the lot of
mortals, a certain portion of bitter, is ever mixed in our
cup of sweets, I believe I shoud be happy, but my Mothers
health is far from good, and Ann is always fidgeting &
twittering about you, and that she says much, but I often
see her eyes red, and swell'd, although I use many argu=
=ments to persuade her that she has more cause to re=
=joice, than to grieve, for my part, if I were ever sure
my husband would be taken abroad, and confined there
for nine, or ten years, I would marry tomorrow, tell
old De Caen when I have a husband I'll send him
to him, and he may have the gratification of keep=
=ing him tied by the leg, as long as pleases.
      My Mother and I were at Ramsgate last summer, we
went by water, and paƒs'd between Sheerneƒs and the
great Nore, how I thought of you, and the poor old
Investigator, do you remember my being on board there.
What fun it was to be sure. Mr & Mrs Peake are now
fix'd at Ramsgate, & are I hope doing very well, he did not
succeed in the vitriol concern, I dare say you remember
Ann, their daughter, she is become a great stout woman,


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Tyler, Isabella (Belle/Bell)
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Tyler, (Reverend) William
De Caen, Charles Mathieu Isadore
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Beverley
Ile de France (Mauritius)
Sheerness
The Nore

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