Tuesday 28 March 2017

28th March 1817: Daniel Diggle writes to his wife, from Nottingham Gaol

March 28th, 1817.

DEAR WIFE,

I write to you, hoping these lines will find you in good health; by the blessing of God I hope they will. I should like to have the pleasure of talking to you before I depart this life, if it could be done. Dear wife, I wish that I had been as you wanted me to be, I should not have come here; but I hope my companions will take warning by me—I hope they will. It is a system that never did, nor never will do any good; but it will bring them to the gallows as it has brought me. Dear wife, if I had been ruled by you, I might have been a pleasure to you and all my friends; but it is done, and cannot be undone—so you must make the best of it. I hope and pray that God will bless you, my dear wife.

DANIEL DIGGLE.

This letters were published in the Nottingham Review of 11th April 1817, having been "handed to us for publication".

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