Susanna Eden LEEDS [26736]

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1. Letter from Catherine G Torlesse: to Susan Mosley nee Leeds, 1838.
Ref Bygone Days Pages 206 - 207 see Books Section.

"MY DEAREST SUSAN,
" Nothing but my unworthiness makes me shrink as to undertaking the sponsorship for your dear child. I dare not
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promise to do what I wish because I do not watch over or pray for my own children as I ought or as I desire but, God helping me, I will endeavour to pray for yours and watch over her whilst life and reason last. You do so for one of mine I know. It is a blessed office I believe and one intended to call out some of our best sympathies. Can you defer the Baptism till the 2nd or 3rd of March. I do not like proxies, and if spared, my own child's birthday will call me to Ipswich. I suffer much from her absence but I know more and more that it is best for her and I do not repine. God indeed weighs and measures every grain of sorrow or joy and why should we wish anything to be different. I hope I do desire nothing but more grace in myself and others and the coming of Christ's Kingdom with his own glorious appearance. Lent is coming which is a blessed time for reflecting on the sacrifice made for us. May it be blessed to us both.
" God bless you, dear Susan, "
Your very affect.
" C. G. T."

2. Letter from Catherine G Torlesse: to Susan Mosley, 9 Jan 1850, Stoke By Nayland SFK.
Ref Bygone Days Page 217 see Books Section.

" MY DEAREST S.,"
Your short report this morning cheered us about dear Susie. Functionary and organic complaints are very different, and I do trust that it may please God to spare her life, still more do I pray for benefit to her soul. Tho' she may not be able to express herself, you cannot doubt that so many prayers will not be answered, tho' we cannot tell exactly in what way. Nehemiah made bold to be God's remembrancer, but dares not to be His councillor or prescriber. He remits the shaping of His answer to the greatness of His mercy. You do not know how much mercy may be in store for her, in being withdrawn from the world. For her life I dare not pray, but make bold to intercede earnestly for her soul's welfare, and for sustaining grace to be granted to you and her father, that your faith fail not or your strength forsake you. I trust that Mrs. Hadwen and Susan may shortly render you some assistance with the other children, if not with her, and that I may hear full particulars from them. When we were taken into Covenant with God He was bound to attend to our cry to sustain our faltering steps. When the world would have had you dearest S., you were snatched away and made to know the Truth, even almost against your will, I am sure I was. How rich the portion of such will only be fully known in the Ages of Eternity.
" Your very affect.,
" C. G. T."

3. Catherine Gurney Wakefield: Letter to Susan Leeds (copy), 17 Feb 1872, Stoke By Nayland SFK.
Liveing Archive Torlesse Folder

Original letter lent by Mrs Mosely per Fanny Torlesse when home from New Zealand May 13/90

Stoke Feb 17 1872.
My dearest Susan
I hasten to tell you that Edward paid £1.5.0 for the Safre [?] Before he left Stoke \endash Tassie, Eddie, Willy and the two girls are at the Tor [?] for a
In these few lines (above) I have copied the handwriting E.L.

[few?] weeks as they have let their house well.
It is quite a treat for me to have her, and her presence encouraged Fanny to leave home for a fortnight because Tassie (Frances Jane Torlesse wife of Edward Liveing \endash called "Tassie" from her birth in Tasmania, and to distinguish from her younger cousin Frances Harriet torlesse called Fanny above. Sometimes when young they were called "great Fanny" and little "Fanny" EL) is like a daughter to me and the girls are charming companions to Katey \endash last night she sat up with little Mary Brown who has had a desperate attack
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of croup \endash her father, mother, and Dr were up all the previous night but the child is better this morning. The two elder ones have had the complaint more mildly \endash they are all most delicate little creatures but Anna is a good mother and he is perfect as a father \endash Harriet (nee Torlesse, Mrs Bridges widow of Rev C. B.) was 75 last Tuesday, but she visits and does a good deal \endash Fanny is going to stay at Richmond where I understand Edward (Mosely) has an invitation for Easter. They are nice friends for him \endash Charlotte Liveing seems to have taken Walter Holland and Edward (they were the undergraduates at Cambridge were my mother and sisters were then residing E.L.) under her protection \endash it is a good thing for young men to have such a safe house as Mrs Liveing's
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to go to when they like.
I wish I could help you with a curate but I know too well that trouble to offer you much hope.
We have smallpox in the villages around and one case close to us. (There was a general epidemic of smallpox at this time throughout the kingdom owing to long neglect and carelessness in vaccination \endash i.e. in ascertaining that those vaccinated really had cowpox E.L. - my children were vaccinated at the "Zoo" then) this seems like a part of the commotion which seems to shake the world.
Blessed are those whose feet are on the rock, even the rock of ages.
My dear love to you all
Yours fondly loving
CST
(Catherine Gurney Torlesse)
(this letter was addressed to Mr Torlesse's first cousin Mrs Moseley née Susan Leeds. She has endorsed it "Dear Cath's last letter after a correspondence of nearly 40 years !")

4. Census: England, 3 Apr 1881, Rotherbank Hastings. Susan is recorded as a wife aged 71 born Chelsea LND

Susanna married Rev Richard MOSELY [26737] [MRIN: 9609] on 3 Apr 1837 in Stoke By Nayland SFK. (Rev Richard MOSELY [26737] was born circa 1803 in London and died on 14 Feb 1882 in Hastings SSX.)