Mr George Knightley,

Knightley, rumor, April 17, 2024.

Actually, September 25th, 1817. Reverend Sir, I am mindful as always of the great debt that we

owe to your eminence and we are as well grateful for the spiritual oversight you should

graciously provide for your people.

In the two years since the marriage of Mr Knightley to Ms Woodhouse, my husband and I have spoken together

with some regularity about the need to inform you of the intractable situation that has been developing on the

vestry.

The only question for us was when this would occur, not weather.

As you know, Mr. Knightley has been a vestryman for some years now, but has become increasingly difficult since his marriage to Miss Woodhouse.

The most recent conflict had to do with some much-needed repairs and improvements that the parsonage, which Mr. Knightley refused to see as most drastically needed.

The wallpaper so desperately out of fashion, and still Mr Knightley refused to consent and carried

Mr Bingham with him.

I never would take it upon myself to intrude into the affairs of the church being of a modest

disposition, but my friends have all urged it upon me. Even my lord and master, Mr. Alton,

when first surprised at the suggestion that I write to you was entirely supportive. Even so, I would not ever presume

to speak directly about any of the Vestry business for that does not concern me and from which the

limitations of my sex exclude me. My sole concern is to speak to the issues of from which I

I may have been to speak to the issues of character, which I believe I may have been

in a better position to observe.

Many of those men whose attention has been excessively diverted by the great concerns of the Church,

have not had the vantage of close observation and others in a more humble station might have.

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