Miss Slessor has been asked by Miss Crawford to supply details of her birth date for administration purposes, but cannot quite recall the year of her birth.
Dear Mr Stevenson
I have a note from Miss(?)(Note 1) Crawford asking me to send you the exact date of my birth.
Thats rather a large order isn’t it? To a gentleman I do not have the honour of knowing personally either. But as I am settled in a large family, having 13 of my own rearing in hand, I need not blush, need I? I do not know whether I was born in 1848 or 49, & the old Family Bible is given away, & the “Act & Testimony” in which also our births were registered was eaten by the ants here years ago, so I don’t know when I can get it. But it was the 2nd. day of the December of one of those years, that had the doubtful honour of my entrance into this world.
Trusting this will satisfy you, & trusting also that I shall be able to escape all obligations to *any* Anuity Fund, by being able to hold my small Fort to the last stage of the Pilgrimage, I beg you to accept best regards & am yours faithfully.
Mary M Slessor
Editorial Notes:
- This is Mary Slessor’s own question mark