The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-12-26 00:00:00

A LOVER'S LETTERS.

In the Dundee Sheriff's Court, the other day, the
case of "Ramsay v. Allen" for breach of promise
was heard. The plaintiff was a domestic servant, and
the defendant a farm servant; awl the damages were
laid at 4:250. Several gushing letters were reasl. In
one of theist dated \Vest Mains, 13th October, 184;5,
the writer says :
I hope to see you soon again for i weary every day when i
dust see your reed and rosy cheeks, with your ha fly bight
blue eyes, and your bonny row of ivorys, and your coal Mack
hair in ringlets hing. • • A W the Its that ere i dhl was
courting a pretty maid but i never intend courting a nether
but your selfe as long as I have breath to draw, for y ur
charming bobs lass eutising I love you far li,tter than ever
I loved anybody else 511100 the first time ever i saw you but
Isabella dear still hopeful he for sly heart shall never sever
from the till the very day tills. Thongh set with snares the
highway be and many a fiendish thrioungh 0 may Ills watch-
ful movidence cons ey me safe along.
In another, dated 11th October, after referring to a
time which must elapse before his wishes could be WU-
summated, he says:—
Then youl be in full bloom like the first rose in summer
with your red complexion for I am sure we wyuld be happy
sitting round the tire In the fore night sod you reading the
hermit of the glen and after all that away to your night's rest
in each others arms as i tell you often about. • • love will
venture In whaur It daurna will he seen far far would I
trav/e for them that i love especially for you my dear
Isabella.
Again, on the 30th October he writes:—
mare are not so many good looking lasses like you here
almut or anywhere else that ever I saw under existence in
my lifetime, and I would be very happy to share the rest of
my days with you, but women are very decioing and I can-
not depend upon them for you are as soft as down and as
sweet as honey to me I always love to see your red and rosy
cheeks from tile first time ever I was with you, but you were
so saucy that you would never speak, but i will fern you to
speak, and the esurting to begin, for grey pose alprays
on
the look out.
In the next dated Ith November, 18115 he gets
still more ardent in his professions of attachment,
saying
am sure he would live a happy life after we was married
and remind each other of our hy gone days of old for its time
pose,: on, and it will come at last, and I am sure we would
never part till death sOolors us, hut We Win always trust in
providence for i am sure he is kind, and h. me to see you on
friday night, for I a eerie to see you for I never saw one that I
loved halls(' well as what I love you.
In the next letter, dated the 14th November, he

says :
nave you as well as Itstuace loved Li.las, (evidently re-
ferring to the hero and hero ne in the Hermit of the Glen
before mentioned,, i woold forsake oil and follow you i have
such a notion of soil, suppose you do not think it and i have
loved you from the tint time ever i saw you and will to that
net get you altogether to my !mite and I hope that will not be
long for i am sure we would live happy togethero happy
lira and nolualy would live half so happy as we would do for
I would like to have everything that we would ueed before
we joined in wedlock I Is.
One of defendant's witnesses being absent the case
was

,
adjourned,