| Content Description | Describes the clothes received for 9 servants; has found J. Smith's 1st and 2nd volumes of prints in the furthest chest in the library, 'where the 1st printed books were open', and will send them along with the keys; mentions that Mr Hayford claims he is still owed some money for cordwood due from the late Duchess [of Newcastle]; reports that Mr Hudson is being slow making the breeches, and that Thomas Thornton's suit is due to arrive on Tuesday; is to show no charity to Mr Pluckrose since he allows his young son Joseph the stable boy to drink so much 'that I am afraid he will perish some night in the mire and Dirt'.
Letter dated 9 Feb. 1723/24. |