Mrs Staunton
Calvi[dock?] [printworks?]
Near Glasgow
Belfast Augt [August?] 28 1844
Dear Mother
I was hoping to have seen you over here last year but was
dissapointed [disappointed?] I am sorry to hear that you are in bad health
from pains Keep them warm for I dont hear of any thing [anything?] so good
for Rheumatisms I hope you are Getting better by this it is not likely that
I can Get over this year but if it is possible it will be in 4 or 5 weeks
at farthest dont be in want of any thing [anything?] for thank God if I
have trouble I have not poverty to press along with the rest If I do not
come I will remit you about that time wishing you the consolations arising
from the sense of being in union with the head ever Christ of whom I can
truly say I feel sustaind [sustained?] and as my day is so shall my & your
strength be if we hold fast and [?] I am & Mother [?] Affectioneately
[Affectionately?]
Moses Staunton
