Description:Sir Thomas’s letters also include amusing anecdotes about family relations, and observations of his own health as an aging man. These comments tell us about Sir Thomas and his family’s perceptions of life in the seventeenth century.
In a letter dated October 1642 to Sir Richard Leveson (1598-1661) Sir Thomas notes amusingly ‘My wife presents her service, and by her extream feares, is not a little trouble to me at this time and she dares not come in Newcastle because the plauge is therre’. The letter tells us that fear of plague was prevalent in the 1640s, and also gives us an insight into the relationship between Sir Thomas and his wife.
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