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Title	1816 letter from Lady Diana Barham to Mrs. Thomas Haweis
Post Date	1816, after February 17
Author	Barham, Lady Diana (1762-1823)
Recipient	[McDowall, Elizabeth 'Bessy'] Mrs. Thomas Haweis (1778-1855)
Date	1816-02-18
Physical Description	4 pp. total; 2 pp. text; 1 p. address; 1 p. blank
Dimensions	37.5 x 23.4 cm
Location (Box, Folder)	Box 1, File 07
Address To	5 Beauford [sic] Buildings, Bath
Country To	England
Address From	Llannindod Wells, Builth, Radmorshire
Country From	Wales
Transcriber	Gareth Lloyd
Plain Text Transcription	From Lady Barham [Diana Noel] in Llandindrod Wells in Powys to [Elizabeth Haweis] at Beaufort Buildings, Bath, Somerset. She is afraid that she did not inform Elizabeth where she could be contacted – her memory is almost destroyed through distress and illness but she does so want to hear of ‘our sweet Sydney’ (in Barham's letters the initials 'S.S.' are often used to denote a name-this evidence indicates that 'S.S.' stands for 'sweet Sydney' and that it was evidently an affectionate nickname for Elizabeth Haweis. It was also used by Lady Elizabeth Elton in her correspondence with Elizabeth Haweis.) so she must write to Llandindrod Wells directly. Since Diana wrote last, she has been in a new state of distress that she could never have forseen. ‘Having a law that [unreadable word] my eldest son; in short all their names except William’s and Gerard’s are in the bill. It has almost killed me, but my own faithful S.S. [sweet Sydney] will be glad to hear that I seem again mending…’ (1 sheet, 4p.) [1816] (annotated by Thomas Haweis [?] - 'Lord Barham's note of hand')
Notes	For related items, see under Charles N. Noel, Thomas Haweis (February, 1816), and the other Barham letters in this collection.
Digital Resources Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2012
Digitization Process	Digitization process: Derivatives resized at 4030 pixels in height or width
Digital Publisher	Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University
Rights	Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library
Decade	1810-1819